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Proverbs 11:23-31

Proverbs 11:23-31

Proverbs 11:15-22

Proverbs 11:15-22

The passage commends financial prudence, grace, mercy, honest work, righteousness, and discretion while warning against reckless guarantees, ruthlessn...

Proverbs 11:7-14

Proverbs 11:7-14

Wicked expectations perish, hypocritical speech destroys neighbors, and cities suffer under wicked mouths. The wise love their neighbors, keep entrust...

Proverbs 11:1-6

Proverbs 11:1-6

God hates dishonest trade and delights in justice; pride brings shame while humility brings wisdom. Integrity guides the upright, but perversity and l...

Proverbs 10:22-32

Proverbs 10:22-32

The Lord's blessing enriches without sorrow, while folly delights in evil and laziness frustrates others. Those who fear God gain an eternal perspecti...

Proverbs 10:1-21

Don't be a fool

Solomon's contrasting proverbs show the practical paths of wisdom and folly: righteousness, diligent work, humility, teachability, integrity, truthful...

Proverbs 10:1-20

Proverbs 10:1-20

Proverbs 9:13-18

Proverbs 9:13-18

Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly issue similar invitations but lead to opposite ends: wisdom begins with fearing the Lord and gives life, while enticing, se...

Proverbs 9:1-12

Proverbs 9:1-12

Wisdom invites the simple to leave foolishness and live. Scoffers reject correction, but wise people welcome instruction and grow wiser. The fear of t...

Proverbs 8:32-36

Proverbs 8:32-36

Wisdom calls God's children to listen, keep her ways, receive instruction, and find life. God's moral law reveals sin, restrains evil, and is used by ...

Proverbs 8:22-31

Proverbs 8:22-31

God possessed wisdom before the earth, depths, mountains, dust, heavens, clouds, and seas were made. He has always been and always will be wise. His w...

Proverbs 8:12-21

Proverbs 8:12-21

God's wisdom is prudent and discerning, hates pride, arrogance, evil ways, and perverse speech, and supplies sound counsel for just rule. Wisdom must ...

Proverbs 8:1-11

Proverbs 8:1-11

Wisdom calls publicly for everyone to hear. Her words are true, righteous, and free from wickedness, and her instruction is more valuable than silver,...

Proverbs 7:21-27

Proverbs 7:21-27

The seduced young man follows immediately, unaware that he is like an ox going to slaughter or a bird entering a fatal snare. Solomon warns that even ...

Proverbs 7:6-20

Proverbs 7:6-20

A father observes a young man without understanding walking near the adulterous woman's house after dark. She uses apparent religiosity, flattery, sec...

Proverbs 7:1-5

Proverbs 7:1-5

A father calls his son to keep and treasure God's commands, treat the law as precious, bind it to his actions, write it on his heart, and make wisdom ...

Proverbs 6:30-35

Proverbs 6:30-35

A starving thief may receive some sympathy, although restitution remains due. By contrast, adultery willfully destroys the offender's own soul, wounds...

Proverbs 6:20-29

Proverbs 6:20-29

A father tells his son to keep his parents' instruction close because God's command is a lamp, his law is light, and correction is the way of life. Th...

Proverbs 6:12-19

Proverbs 6:12-19

Solomon describes the crooked, deceptive person who communicates perversely, plots evil, blames others, and continually sows discord; his collapse wil...

Proverbs 6:1-11

Proverbs 6:1-11

Solomon gives two practical warnings: escape quickly and humbly from an unwise pledge that makes you responsible for another person's debt, and imitat...

Proverbs 5:15-23

Proverbs 5:15-23

Marriage is God's covenant setting for exclusive marital intimacy, satisfaction, security, and joy. Husbands and wives must love their own spouses and...

Proverbs 5:7-14

Proverbs 5:7-14

Solomon warns his children to remain far from adultery because it consumes honor, years, wealth, health, family stability, and standing in the congreg...

Proverbs 5:1-6

Proverbs 5:1-6

A father urges his son to attend to wisdom because sexual temptation begins with flattering words that seem sweet and smooth but lead to bitterness, i...

Proverbs 4:18-27

Proverbs 4:18-27

The righteous path brightens toward perfect day, while the wicked stumble in darkness without understanding why. A father tells his son to listen cont...