
WISDOM IN PROVERBS
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Live longer! Live by the Word of God (Prov 3:1-2).
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If you have been blessed with material wealth, it is so that you can give to others (Prov 3:27-30).
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Winners are willing to do things they hate in order to create something they love (Prov 20:13).
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Being a cosigner on a debt is like being a gazelle pursued by a hunter (Prov 6:1-5).
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Laziness and poverty are bed-fellows (Prov 6:6-11).
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Cheating on your spouse is like holding fire to your chest... you'll get badly burned (Prov 6:24-28).
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Those who hate wisdom love death (Prov 8:36).
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Don't spend all your strength and time making money. When the Lord returns He'll change the currency (Prov 11:4).
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Just because everyone else is doing it, is no excuse to commit sin (Prov 11:21).
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An immoral but attractive person is like a pig wearing jewelry (Prov 11:22).
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What you're willing to give up determines what God will bring back to you (Prov 3:9-10).
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Giving the driver's seat over to God will make the trip much smoother (Prov 3:5-6).
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Watch what you do... God sees EVERYTHING! (Prov 15:3).
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Be glad in your heart... it'll improve your face (Prov 15:13).
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Be a friend of God and He will bring you other friends (Prov 16:7).
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It is more impressive to control your anger than to conquer a city (Prov 16:32).
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Tales are like delicious sweets. Although they're enjoyable, they'll ruin your health (Prov 18:8).
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Gossip is fun to listen to, but the stories will damage your soul (Prov 18:8).
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Like false weights, (see 16:11), skewed justice destroys a culture (Prov 17:23).
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Wisdom produces a satisfied life. The fool continues searching without finding any satisfaction (Prov 17:24).
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A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart (Prov 18:2).
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The path to honor, which the proud so covet, is humility (Prov 18:12).
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A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother (Prov 18:24).
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Patience and restraint are virtues of wisdom (see 16:32); rashness and violent outbursts are not (Prov 19:11).
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He who keeps the commandments keeps his soul, but he who is careless of his ways will die (Prov 19:16).
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He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and He will pay back what he has given (Prov 19:17).
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The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will not be visited with evil (Prov 19:23).
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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise (Prov 20:1).
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Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel (Prov 20:17).
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Do not say "I will recompense evil"; wait for the LORD, and He will save you (Prov 20:22).
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Suffering cleanses. No one wants to be hurt, but God can bring good out of any evil and make us better through hardship (Prov 20:30).
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Vowing something to God and then taking it back is like snaring ourselves (Prov 20:25).
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Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts (Prov 21:2).
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The plans of the diligent leads surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty (Prov 21:5).
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Some prosperity is good and some is bad. The difference lies in how one gets it. (Prov 21:6).