Making a House, a Home
Proverbs 24:3–4: Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
The Cure for Right Living
Proverbs 24:1–2: Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them; for their heart devises violence, and their lips talk of troublemaking.
He is Our Deliverer
Proverbs 23:29–35: Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine. Do not look on the wine when it is red, When …
Headed in the Right Direction
Proverbs 23:26: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Twisted Conversations
Proverbs 23:6–8: Do not eat the bread of a miser, nor desire his delicacies; For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, and waste your …
The Right Reason for the Right Balance
Proverbs 23:4–5: Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease! Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
Make the Right Friends
Proverbs 22:24–25: Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man do not go, lest you learn his ways and set a snare for your soul.
That You May Know
Proverbs 22:20–21: Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you?
His Wisdom
Proverbs 22:17–19: Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge; For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips, so that your trust may be in the Lord; I have …