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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 3:1-35

Chapter 3Chapter 3 continues toMy son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee ( Proverbs 3:1-2 ).Now these are the three. And we get now into some couplets here. He gives sort of a word, and then he tells you what the result of it will be. And to keep the commandment in your heart, it will grant to you the length of days, long life, peace will they add to thee. Now the next little statement:Let not mercy and truth... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:2 . Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. The truth of this promise, of frequent occurrence in the sacred writings, is demonstrated by the longevity of many scripture characters; and eternal life, by way of apposition, is understood. Proverbs 3:3 . Bind them about thy neck. As vain persons decorate their bodies with gems and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:1-35My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments.Useful precepts and inspiring motivesI. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1-2). Interest dictates to us the propriety of keeping God’s commandments.II. To live in the exercise of mercy and truth (Proverbs 3:3), in every part of our intercourse with our fellow-creatures, however defective they may be in the practice of these virtues to us. As workers under the Spirit we... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:27

Proverbs 3:27Withhold not good from them to whom it is due.A plea for the shop-menWhen the first man had fallen into sin labour was imposed upon him as a punishment. And yet there was mercy mingled with the judgment. That stern necessity which forced man to eat bread in the sweat of his brow became one of his purest and sweetest sources of enjoyment. What would the world be without labour? Do we not owe to it the occupation of time which otherwise would be a burden too heavy to bear? Is it not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:28-35

Proverbs 3:28-35Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give. NeighbourlinessI. What is due to others? (Proverbs 3:27). There is a sense in which debt should be avoided, and a sense in which all men must be always over head and ears in it (Romans 13:8). Love is a debt that can never be discharged. As followers of Christ we must love always and love all. Some men are neighbours because they reside in the same street, and all men are neighbours because they reside on... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 3:27

Pro 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it]. Ver. 27. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due. ] Either by the law of equity, or of charity. For there is a debt of love Rom 13:8 that we must ever be owing and ever pay. And as we say of thanks, gratiae habendae et agendae, thanks must be given, and held as still due; so must this debt of love. Quicquid clerici habent, pauperum est, saith Jerome. It is true, in a sense, of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 3:28

Pro 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee. Ver. 28. Tomorrow. ] Bis dat qui cito dat. While ye have time, do good to all; your beneficence must be prompt and present; who can tell what a day may bring forth? "Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." Psa 68:32 Currere faciet manus suas ad Dominum, to note their speediness in giving, saith one. a Tyrus also, when converted once, makes haste to feed and clothe... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 3:27

Withhold: Romans 13:7, Galatians 6:10, Titus 2:14, James 2:15, James 2:16, James 5:4 them to whom it is due: Heb. the owners thereof in the: Genesis 31:29, Micah 2:1 Reciprocal: Genesis 14:24 - Save Deuteronomy 15:13 - General Deuteronomy 24:15 - At his Esther 6:4 - Who is in the court Ecclesiastes 11:4 - General Matthew 5:42 - General Luke 6:30 - Give Acts 16:10 - immediately Romans 13:8 - Owe read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 3:28

Proverbs 27:1, Leviticus 19:13, Deuteronomy 24:12-Ezra :, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Ecclesiastes 11:6, 2 Corinthians 8:11, 2 Corinthians 9:3, 1 Timothy 6:18 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:13 - General Deuteronomy 24:15 - At his 2 Chronicles 10:5 - Come again Esther 6:4 - Who is in the court Song of Solomon 5:3 - have put Matthew 5:42 - General Luke 6:30 - Give Acts 16:10 - immediately Romans 13:8 - Owe James 2:16 - one read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 3:27

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.With-hold not — Do not deny it, but readily and chearfuly impart it.Good — Any thing which is good, either counsel, comfort, reproof, or the good things of the present life.Due — That is, to all men, by that great and sovereign law of love. read more

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