Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 19:27 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 27. 27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
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Role in This Section
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 19:25–29
At Proverbs 19:27, the unit contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge”. That precise work supports “Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove...” without importing a neighboring verse's subject or making the line a complete policy.
Why It Needs Context
This context pointer contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge”. Read Proverbs 19:25–29 before assigning independent truth or application to Proverbs 19:27.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 19:25–29 — Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove...Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
This sentence saying states a context-shaped moral pattern. Its small-cluster boundary and degree of generality remain reviewable; exceptional outcomes do not make the observation meaningless or turn it into a guarantee.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
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.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 19:25–29, 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 19:25-19:29
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