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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 11:3

Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright sham guide them.Integrity the best guide both in religious inquiries and in moral conductThe policy of the world, like the world itself, is fluctuating and deceitful. Uncertain both in its objects and its means, it knows nothing of that steadfastness which religious principle communicates both to mind and conduct. The shifts and windings of those who are guided by no higher principles than those of pride and avarice would be truly ludicrous if they were... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:3

Pro 11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. Ver. 3. The integrity of the upright shall guide them. ] An elegant allusion in the original. Their uprightness shall lead them whither they would, and secure them from danger. They "fulfil the royal law," Jam 2:8 keep the king’s highway, and so are kept safe; while those that go out of God’s precincts are out of his protection. But the perverseness of transgressors. ] Of... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 11:3

The integrity: Proverbs 11:5, Proverbs 13:6, Psalms 25:21, Psalms 26:1, John 7:17 the perverseness: Proverbs 21:7, Proverbs 28:18, Ecclesiastes 7:17, Isaiah 1:28 Reciprocal: Genesis 20:5 - in the integrity Proverbs 5:22 - His Proverbs 21:12 - overthroweth read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 11:3

3. Shall guide Or lead them, as a shepherd does his flock. Principles of rectitude shall conduct in the way of safety, but the perverseness of transgressors, or, as it might literally be rendered, the slipperiness of the treacherous, shall utterly destroy them, or break them to pieces. There may be an antithesis here between the integrity wholeness of the upright, and the breaking to pieces of the treacherous. Rectitude is a straight path, leading to safety; treachery, hypocrisy, a... read more

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