Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Proverbs 1:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
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Quick Meaning
This verse uses two-part parallelism to place “Cast in thy lot among us” beside “let us all have one purse”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 1:8–19
Read Proverbs 1:14 with 1:8–19. Read alone, “Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: contributes the claim, image, or instruction “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother”; by 1:19, it uses two-part parallelism to place “So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain” beside “which taketh away the life of the owners thereof”. Together the unit concentrates on violence, predation, conflict, and protection, family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, instruction, correction, and formation within “Purpose, parental discourses, and the rival invitations of Wisdom and Folly.”
Why This Verse Appears Here
Proverbs 1:8–19 continues “The collection's purpose and governing fear” by carrying “Do not join the violent ambush” within the same sustained discourse, admonition, numbered form, or poem. Within that relationship, this verse uses two-part parallelism to place “Cast in thy lot among us” beside “let us all have one purse”.
What Remains True
Violence and uncontrolled conflict destroy trust, endanger bodies, and often rebound upon those who organize them. In Proverbs 1:14, that bounded truth is expressed through “Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse,” not through a promise detached from its literary form.
How It Can Shape Life
- Prioritize immediate safety, de-escalation where possible, accountable intervention, evidence preservation, and competent help. Proverbs 1:14 names that responsibility through “Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse,” so the response must remain accountable to the person, action, comparison, or consequence in this line.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 1:8–19 — Do not join the violent ambushSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 1:8–19, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 1:8-1:19
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.
Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1074-1080, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 1:8–19
Open source ↗