Proverbs

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• The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  1:7 (KJV)In context

  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

  3:5 (KJV)In context

  • Faith
  • God

• Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

  3:13 (KJV)In context

  • Happiness
  • Wisdom

• Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
  Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

  6:6–8 (KJV)In context

  • Wisdom
  • Work

• For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

  8:11 (KJV)In context

  • Wisdom

• A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

  12:10 (KJV)In context

  • Animals
  • Good & Evil

• Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

  14:34 (KJV)In context

  • Morality
  • Virtue

• A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

  16:9 (KJV)In context

  • Decisions
  • God

• Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

  16:18 (KJV)In context

  • Pride

• A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

  17:22 (KJV)In context

  • Happiness
  • Health

• Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  22:6 (KJV)In context

  • Children
  • Education

• The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  22:7 (KJV)In context

  • Money

• If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
  For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

  25:21–22 (KJV)In context

  • Enemies
  • Forgiveness

• As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

  26:11 (KJV)In context

  • Clever Jabs
  • Wisdom

• Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

  27:17 (KJV)In context

  • Friendship

• The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

  28:1 (KJV)In context

  • Courage
  • Good & Evil

• There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
  The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

  30:18–19 (KJV)In context

  • Love
  • Nature

• Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

  31:10 (KJV)In context

  • Virtue
  • Women

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