“He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 10 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.