Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 15:8
Sacrifice — All the religious services, yea, the most costly; one kind being put for all the rest. Prayer — The cheapest and meanest services.
Sacrifice — All the religious services, yea, the most costly; one kind being put for all the rest. Prayer — The cheapest and meanest services.
Verse Proverbs 15:8. _THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED_ IS _AN ABOMINATION_] Even the most _sedulous attendance_ on the _ordinances_ of God, and _performance_ of the _ceremonies of religion_, is an abomin...
CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
THE WICKED. lawless ones. IS AN ABOMINATION, &C. See note on Proverbs 3:32. Illustrations: Cain (Genesis 4:5.Hebrews 11:4; Hebrews 11:4
See Genesis 4:3-5; Hebrews 11:4; Hebrews 11:6....
DISCOURSE: 789 THE UPRIGHT ALONE ACCEPTABLE TO GOD Proverbs 15:8. _The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight_. THE language of Scriptur...
THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION— Melancthon thinks that this is a caution against resting in ceremonious worship, without holiness and moral virtue. See his Treatise concerning the Metho...
TEXT Proverbs 15:1-11 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grevious word stirreth up anger. 2. The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright; But the mouth of fools poureth out folly....
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: BUT THE PRAYER OF THE UPRIGHT IS...
A costly offering from the one is unacceptable: the mere prayer of the other is accepted (Mark 12:42)....
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
The people of Israel sacrificed (killed) animals as a gift to God (Leviticus Chapter s 1 to 7). If an evil person did this, God would not accept the gift. God wants us to be holy. He wants us to ask h...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger....
THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD. — And their prayers also (Isaiah 1:11). The worthlessness of sacrifice without obedience (comp. 1 Samuel 15:22) may be here especially mentio...
זֶ֣בַח רְ֭שָׁעִים תֹּועֲבַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וּ תְפִלַּ֖ת...
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
KIND WORDS AND GLAD HEARTS Proverbs 15:1-17 _A soft answer; the tongue of the wise; a wholesome tongue; the lips of the wise; the prayer of the upright_ -these keywords touch one of the greatest depa...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
The (b) sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight. (b) That thing is abominable before God, which the wicked think to be most excellent,...
Wicked. Still unconverted, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 23. When they repent, and offer sacrifice with sincerity, they will obtain mercy. The Donatists abused this text, to prove that baptism conferred by wi...
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED [IS] AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD,.... Even those sacrifices which were of divine appointment under the former dispensation, when offered by wicked men, without faith in Chri...
The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight. Ver. 8. _The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination._] Their very incense stinks from t...
_The sacrifice of the wicked_ Or the religious services, yea, the best and most costly of them, one kind being put for all the rest; _is an abomination to the Lord_ Because not offered with a sincere...
V. 8. THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, for it is brought in ungodliness and hypocrisy; BUT THE PRAYER OF THE UPRIGHT, by which they worship God in spirit and in truth and ent...
THE SACRIFICE; all the religious services, yea, the best and most costly of them; one kind being put for all the rest. THE PRAYER; the cheapest and meanest services....
Proverbs 15:8 sacrifice H2077 wicked H7563 abomination H8441 LORD H3068 prayer H8605 upright H3477 delight H7522 sacrifice -...
WISE WORDS, REPROOF AND FIRM DISCIPLINE UPHOLD THE RIGHTEOUS, GIVING THEM SUITABLE REWARD, WHILST THE UNRIGHTEOUS REJECT REPROOF, AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES (PROVERBS 15:4). In this subsection there...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:1 This is a series of proverbs dealing primarily with speech, submission to instruction, and God’s providence. ⇐...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:8 The SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED is meaningless. By contrast, the PRAYER OF THE UPRIGHT, as a part of a life that PURSUES RIGHTEOUSNESS, is pleasing to
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:8_ PRAYING AND LIVING I. GOD LOVES RIGHTEOUS MEN WITH A SPECIAL LOVE. God has a love for all His human creatures—a love which springs out of His relationship to them a...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. If...
1 Chronicles 29:17; Amos 5:21; Amos 5:22; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 61:8;...