Posts with the tag “understanding”

Proverbs 13:23 "Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment." As with the previous proverb about leaving an inheritance for grandchildren and as with m...  Read More

Proverbs 13:15 "Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard." The book of Proverbs is a unique book in Scripture where context is rarely relevant. While there are passages l...  Read More

Proverbs 13:9 "The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out." What bold imagery for the reader!  In this proverb, Solomon assigns a particular level of light to a ...  Read More

Proverbs 11:12 "He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace." The human heart hates with ease. Hate is native to the soil in man’s heart.  Where lov...  Read More

Proverbs 10:13 "In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding." Right around 1600, William Shakespeare wrote his longest pl...  Read More

Proverbs 8:14-16 "Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the eart...  Read More

Proverbs 8:1-5 "Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the ...  Read More

Proverbs 7:13-20 "So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,  I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, dili...  Read More

Proverbs 7:7 "And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding." There are a lot things that we can live without.  There are a lot of things we can do ...  Read More

Proverbs 7:6-7 "For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding..." One of the biggest mis...  Read More

Proverbs 7:4-5 "Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words." I have lo...  Read More

Proverbs 4:5-6 "Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee." Solomon bega...  Read More

Proverbs 3:22-26 "So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: ye...  Read More

Proverbs 3:21 "My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:" After promoting life’s greatest virtues with eternity’s greatest Character in verses nineteen and twenty,...  Read More

Proverbs 3:19-20 "The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.  By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew." Having exp...  Read More

Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."Proverbs 3:5-6 should never be separa...  Read More

Proverbs 3:3-4 "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man."...  Read More

Proverbs 2:21-22 "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it."The fina...  Read More

Proverbs 2:20 "That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous."Proverbs is a book of tremendous detail.  Solomon was a man given to detail because he knew that detai...  Read More

Proverbs 2:11-12 "Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;"Sadly, many young people don’t...  Read More

Proverbs 2:8-9 "He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path."This passage offers bo...  Read More

Proverbs 2:5-6 "Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding."Based on both inspirati...  Read More

Proverbs 2:3-4 "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;  If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;"There is a clear progressio...  Read More

Proverbs 1:18 "And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives."Solomon is almost done with his paternal preaching on problematic peer pressure in verse 18.  In previous v...  Read More

Proverbs 1:5-6 "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, an...  Read More

Proverbs 1:5 "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:"After outlining the three primary reasons for compiling a collection of his ...  Read More

Proverbs 1:2 "To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"After identifying the nature and author of the contents of the book, Solomon publishes his intent for the book in ...  Read More