Proverbs 12:1-2 ESV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:1

We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have grace and love it will delight in all the instructions that are given them by way of counsel; admonition, or reproof, by the word or providence of God; they will value a good education, and think it not a hardship, but a happiness, to be under a strict and prudent discipline. Those that love a faithful ministry, that value it, and sit under it with pleasure, make... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:2

Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good. On the other hand those are miserable whom he condemns, however men may applaud them, and cry them up; whom he condemns he condemns to the second death. 2. We are with God as we are with men, as we have our conversation in this world. Our... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:1

Whose loveth instruction loveth knowledge ,.... That loves the instruction of Wisdom, or Christ, Proverbs 4:13 ; the means of instruction, the Scriptures, which are profitable for instruction in righteousness, and are written for our learning; the Gospel, which instructs into the person, office, and grace of Christ; the ministers of the word, who are so many instructors in Christ; and even the rod of afflictions, by which men are taught their duty, and the will of God: and these are to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:2

A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord ,.... One that is made so by the grace of God, for no man is so naturally; there is none good, nor does good, no, not one, until some good thing is put into him, or the good work of grace is begun in him. And such a man obtains favour or good will from the Lord; that is, as Gersom explains it, what he himself wills, for the will of God is his will; or rather the good will of God, his grace, and layout; fresh manifestations and discoveries of which he... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth instruction - מוסר musar , discipline or correction, loves knowledge; for correction is the way to knowledge. But he that hateth reproof is brutish - בער baar , he is a bear; and expects no more benefit from correction than the ox does from the goad. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:2

A good man obtaineth favor - First, it is God who makes him good; for every child of Adam is bad till the grace of God changes his heart. Secondly, while he walks in the path of obedience he increases in goodness, and consequently in the favor of the Lord. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:1

Instruction ; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and opens his mind to receive knowledge, especially the knowledge of himself and of all moral obligations. Is brutish; is as insensible to higher aspirations, to regret for the past or hope of amendment, as a brute beast (comp. Proverbs 30:2 ). On this point St. Augustine is quoted: " Quicumque corripi non vis, ex eo sane corripiendus es quia corripi non vis. Non vis enim tua... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:1-3

Primary truths I. THE WISDOM OF SUBMISSION , THE FOLLY OF RESISTANCE , TO REPROOF . As self-knowledge is the most precious and indispensable, and as it comes to us by chastisement, i.e. by disappointment, humiliation, pain of various kinds,—to welcome correction, to be willing and anxious to know our faults, is the mark of true wisdom. To fret at reproof, to be angry with the counsellor, to hate the revealing light, is the worst folly and stupidity. II. THE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:1-15

The downward and the upward paths Whether we are daily ascending or descending depends very much on whether we are ready or are refusing to learn The man of open mind is he who moves up, but the man whose soul is shut against the light is he who is going down. I. THE DOWNWARD PATH . We strike one point in this path when we come to: 1 . The forming of a false estimate of ourself. When "our way is right in our own eyes" ( Proverbs 12:15 ), and that way is the wrong one,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:2

A good man. The word is general, the particular virtue intended being often modified by the context. In view of the contrast in the second clause, it means here "pure," "straightforward." having a heart free from evil thoughts. As the psalm says, "Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart" ( Psalms 73:1 ). Obtaineth favour of the Lord ( Proverbs 8:35 ); Septuagint, "Better is he who findeth favour from the Lord." A man of wicked devices ( Proverbs 14:17 );... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:1

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:1-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 12:2

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