Spreuken 14:27

27 De vreze des HEEREN is een springader des levens, om af te wijken van de strikken des doods.

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Spreuken 14:27 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the Lord [is] a fountain of life
Where the true fear of God is, there is a real principle of grace, which is "a well of living water, springing up unto everlasting life", ( John 4:14 ) ; eternal life is connected with it; it makes meet for it, and issues in it: or the Lord, who is the object of fear, he is the fountain of life: as of natural, so of spiritual and eternal life; spiritual life springs from him, is supported and maintained by him, the consequence of which is life everlasting; to depart from the snares of death;
sins, transgressions, as Aben Ezra interprets it; these are the works of men's hands, in which they are snared; these are the cords in which they are holden, and so die without instruction; the wages of them are death, even death eternal: likewise there are the snares of the world and of the devil, temptations to sin, with which being ensnared, lead to death; now the fear of the Lord is a means of delivering from and of avoiding those snares, and so of escaping death.

Spreuken 14:27 In-Context

25 Een waarachtig getuige redt de zielen; maar die leugens blaast, is een bedrieger.
26 In de vreze des HEEREN is een sterk vertrouwen, en Hij zal Zijn kinderen een Toevlucht wezen.
27 De vreze des HEEREN is een springader des levens, om af te wijken van de strikken des doods.
28 In de menigte des volks is des konings heerlijkheid; maar in gebrek van volk is eens vorsten verstoring.
29 De lankmoedige is groot van verstand; maar die haastig is van gemoed, verheft de dwaasheid.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.