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Proverbs 15:26 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 26. 26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
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Role in This Section
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD” against “the words of the pure are pleasant words”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 15:24–27
Read Proverbs 15:26 with 15:24–27. Read alone, “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but…” 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 “The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath”; by 15:27, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house” against “he that hateth gifts shall live”. Together the unit concentrates on reverent accountability before the LORD, family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”
Why It Needs Context
Proverbs 15:26 uses contrastive parallelism to place “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD” against “the words of the pure are pleasant words”. Because this line supplies setup, support, continuation, or result, “Reverent accountability before the LORD — The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart…” provides the meaning it cannot responsibly carry alone.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Proverbs 15:24–27 — Reverent accountability before the LORD — The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart…Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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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.
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Exact location: Proverbs 15:24–27, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
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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 15:24-15:27
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