Category: proverbs
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Grace or Bitterness?
9Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.–Proverbs 17
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Which Describes You?
32Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.–Proverbs 16
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God’s Eyes
3The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.–Proverbs 15
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Self-Control Walls
28Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.–Proverbs 25
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Parents and Children
15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed; 16my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.–Proverbs 23
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A Heart That Is Pure
11One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.–Proverbs 22 I was verbally bullied in middle school and high school, and I never fought back. Inside I was devising words to say and responses to give. With my friends we would have verbal sparring sessions where…
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Whose Eyes?
2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.–Proverbs 21
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Rock Bottom Hope
7The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.–Proverbs 28 It almost seems impossible that Jesus didn’t have this proverb on his mind when he gave his famous parable about the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. Let’s use that passage to illustrate. A father had…
Joel M Bradshaw 