The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.
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The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.
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The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 14:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 13:14 The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
- Revelation 21:6 He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- Proverbs 2:10-18 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil, who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths, to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
- Psalms 18:5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
- Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
- Isaiah 33:6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 14:27 The fear of the LORD [is] a…
Pro 14:27 The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Ver. 27. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life.] So said to be, both for the constant faithfulness, as never failing, and for the gracious effects - viz., blessings of all sorts. (1). Temporal; {Pro 22:4} riches, honour, life. (2). Spiritual; {Mal 4:2} such shall "grow up as the calves of the stall," fat and fair-liking. (3). Eternal; {Psa 31:19} "O how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee"; "eye hath not seen," &c. {1Co 2:9} It shall be always "well with them." {Ecc 8:12} And though many afflictions, &c., yet he that feareth God "shall come out of them all." {Ecc 7:18}
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To depart from the snares of death.] Satan, that mighty hunter, hath laid snares for us in all places. And the way of this world is like the vale of Siddim, slimy and slippery; full of slime pits and pitfails, snares and stumblingblocks, laid on purpose to maim us or mischief us. He that fears God comes off without hurt by remembering that saying - which, as short as it is, yet our memories are shorter - Cave, Deus videt; - Take heed; God seeth thee. A godly man had these verses written before him on a table in his study:
“Ne pecces, Deus ipse videt, tuus Angelus astat:
Accusat Satanas et lex, mens conscia culpae:
Mors incerta furit: cruciat te luridus Orcus:
Et manet aeternum tristi damnatio poena.”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To preserve men from deadly and destructive courses.
To preserve men from deadly and destructive courses.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The fear of the Lord is a fountain of…
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,.... Where the true fear of God is, there is a real principle of grace, which is "a well of living water, springing up unto everlasting life", Joh 4:14; eternal life is connected with it; it makes meet for it, and issues in it: or the Lord, who is the object of fear, he is the fountain of life: as of natural, so of spiritual and eternal life; spiritual life springs from him, is supported and maintained by him, the consequence of which is life everlasting;
to depart from the snares of death; sins, transgressions, as Aben Ezra interprets it; these are the works of men's hands, in which they are snared; these are the cords in which they are holden, and so die without instruction; the wages of them are death, even death eternal: likewise there are the snares of the world and of the devil, temptations to sin, with which being ensnared, lead to death; now the fear of the Lord is a means of delivering from and of avoiding those snares, and so of escaping death.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain To depart - To preserve men from destructive courses.
To depart - To preserve men from destructive courses.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. The fear of the Lord is a…
Verse 27. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life] מקור חיים mekor chaiyim, the vein of lives. Another allusion to the great aorta which carries the blood from the heart to all the extremities of the body. Of this phrase, and the tree of lives, Solomon is particularly fond. See on Pr 4:23; Pr 10:12.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain See the marginal reference and Pro 10:11 note.
See the marginal reference and Pro 10:11 note.
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Charles Bridges 1846 · Public Domain How glowing is this Divine principle! refreshing like the…
How glowing is this Divine principle! refreshing like the springs of Canaan;†1 full of life;†2 temporal,†3 spiritual,†4 eternal.†5 It is the influence of the heavenly Comforter, as a fountain "springing up into everlasting life." (Joh 4:14 .) Its preserving tendency is invaluable. It is always connected with the fear of sin (Pro 3:7 ; Pro 16:6 ), as grieving our most beloved friend, and separating from our only happiness; while it keeps us from the snares of death (Ecc 7:26 ), "the end and wages of sin." (Rom 6:23 .) How complete then is its application! Not only is it a refuge from danger, but a fountain of life. Not only does Christian confidence open a cover from the guilt, but its holy influence roots out the power, of sin. For among the countless throng of the redeemed not one finds a cover from condemnation, who is not renovated unto spiritual life. Thus does this invaluable grace flow with the full streams of gospel blessing. How much of that worldliness that soils our profession, and of the restraint that contracts our spiritual joy, may be traced to the sparing or defective application of this Christian principle!
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†1 Deu 8:7. Jos 15:19 .
†2 Pro 22:4.
†3 Pro 10:27.
†4 Pro 19:23. Mal 4:2 .
†5 Psa 103:17.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Compare Pro 13:14).
(Compare Pro 13:14).
fear of the Lord--or, "law of the wise," is wisdom (Psa 111:10).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 27. To depart… from death — That is, to…
27. To depart… from death — That is, to cause to depart. It is the source of life and the cause of escape from death. Comp. Pro_10:11; Pro_13:14; Rev_21:6.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. Comp. Pro_13:14.
27. Comp. Pro_13:14.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) Fountain of life.—Comp. Pro_13:14 and Joh_4:14.
(27) Fountain of life.—Comp. Pro_13:14 and Joh_4:14.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A repetition of Pro_13:14, substituting the fear of the…
A repetition of Pro_13:14, substituting the fear of the Lord for "the law of the wise." The fear of the Lord can he called a fountain of life, because, showing itself in obedience, it nourishes the flowers and fruits of faith, produces graces and virtues, and prepares the soul for immortality. Septuagint, "The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life, and makes one decline from the snare of death."
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain The fear of the Lord is a fountain of…
Pro_14:27
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life.
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The fountain of life
I. Something that needs replenishing. Life is a fire--it must be kept alight; a lamp--it needs oil; energy--it demands a nervous sustentation. So with spiritual life--it cannot continue without food.
II. Something to replenish mans life. The fear of the Lord. Here is rich provender called a fountain--continuous, inexhaustible, pure--the source, not the stream. How is it a fountain of life?
1. Because it enables us to assimilate Divine food.
2. Because it is the key which unlocks the tap. (Homilist.)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain (See Scofield "Psa 19:9").
fear
(See Scofield "Psa 19:9").
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 27. The fear of the Lord is a…
v. 27. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, the source of all true spiritual life, to depart from the snares of death; for where there is no fear of God, there is transgression, and transgression leads to everlasting death.
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