Proverbs Session Pt. 3 (Pay close attention to everything YOU say...)

Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. ...

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 1:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

To understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...