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Proverbs 11:3

Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The integrity of the upright shall guide them,.... The Spirit of God is the best guide of an upright man; he leads into all truth, and unto the land of uprightness, and continues to be a guide, even…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

It is not only promised that God will guide the upright, and threatened that he will destroy the transgressors, but, that we may be the more fully assured of both, it is here represented as if the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

perverseness Some would render slipperiness; as we say, "a slippery fellow." The noun occurs here only and in Pro 15:4, but the cognate verb is found several times in this Book (Pro 13:6; Pro 19:3;…