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    • "TRUTH"







    The statements that you see below are not exact quotes from scripture. They are renderings of different statements contained in scripture. Next to them, you will see the passage where I derived these renderings.





    PROVERBS: Chapter 1-14




  • A wise man will hear and increase in learning(1:5).


  • And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel(1:6).


  • The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge(1:7).


  • Fools despise wisdom and instruction(1:7).


  • Indeed, your father's instruction and your mother's teaching are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck(1:9).


  • If sinners entice you, do not consent(1:10).


  • Everyone who gains by violence ambush their own lives(1:18).


  • Wisdom shouts in the street and lifts her voice in the square(1:20).


  • Naive people love to be simple-minded(1:22).


  • Fools hate knowledge(1:22).


  • Naive people, scoffers, and fools neglect Wisdoms counsel(1:25).


  • Naive people, scoffers, and fools do not want Wisdoms reproof(1:25).


  • Wisdom laughs at naive people, scoffers, and fools when their calamity comes(1:26).


  • Naive people, scoffers, and fools hate knowledge and do not choose the fear of the Lord(1:29).


  • Naive people, scoffers, and fools shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be satisfied with their own devices(1:31).


  • The waywardness of the naive will kill them(1:32).


  • The complacency of fools will destroy them(1:32).


  • He who listens to Wisdom shall live securely and will be at ease from the dread of evil(1:33).


  • If you receive King Solomon's words, treasure his commandments, make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding, cry for discernment, lift your voice for understanding, seek understanding as silver, and search for understanding as for hidden treasures; then you will discern righteousness, the fear of the Lord, justice, equity, every good course, and discover the knowledge of God. Also, discretion will guard you, understanding will watch over you. They are to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; to deliver you from the strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words, leaves the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. Discretion and understanding deliver you so you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous(2:1-20).


  • The Lord gives wisdom(2:6).


  • God speaks knowledge and understanding(2:6).


  • God stores up sound wisdom for the upright(2:7).


  • God is a shield to those who walk in integrity(2:7).


  • God guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of His godly ones(2:8).


  • The adulteress' house sinks down to death(2:18).


  • The adulteress' tracks lead to the dead(2:18).


  • No one who goes to the adulteress will ever return again, nor will they ever reach the paths of life(2:19).


  • Let your heart keep King Solomon's commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you(3:1).


  • Do not let truth and kindness leave you(3:3).


  • Bind truth and kindness around your neck and write them on the tablet of your heart. Do this so that you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man(3:3).


  • Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding(3:5).


  • Acknowledge God in all your ways, and He will make your paths straight(3:6).


  • Do not be wise in your own eyes(3:7).


  • Fear the LORD and turn away from evil(3:7).


  • When you fear the LORD and turn away from evil It heals your body and refreshes to your bones(3:8).


  • Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first of all your produce so that your barns will be filled with plenty And your vats will overflow with new wine(3:9-10).


  • Do not reject the discipline of the LORD or loathe His reproof, for whom the LORD loves He reproves, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights(3:11-12).


  • A man who finds wisdom is blessed(3:13).


  • A man who gains understanding is blessed(3:13).


  • The profit of wisdom/understanding is better than the profit of silver(3:14).


  • The gain of wisdom/understanding is better than fine gold(3:14).


  • Wisdom/understanding is more precious than jewels(3:15).


  • Nothing you desire compares with wisdom/understanding(3:15).


  • Riches, honor, and a long life come along with wisdom/understanding(3:16).


  • Wisdom/understanding has pleasant ways. Her paths are peace(3:17).


  • Wisdom/understanding is a tree of life to those who take hold of her(3:18).


  • All who hold fast to wisdom/understanding are happy(3:18).


  • The Lord founded the earth by wisdom(3:19).


  • The Lord established the heavens by understanding(3:19).


  • By God's knowledge the deeps were broken up and the sky's drip with dew(3:20).


  • Keep sound wisdom and discretion, So they will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck. Then you will walk in your way securely and your foot will not stumble. When you lie down, you will not be afraid; When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet(3:21-24).


  • Do not be afraid of sudden fear nor of the onslaught of the wicked when it comes; For the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught(3:25-26).


  • Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it(3:27).


  • Do not say to your neighbor, go, and come back, and tomorrow I will give it, when you have it with you(3:28).


  • Do not devise harm against your neighbor, while he lives securely beside you(3:29).


  • Do not contend with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm(3:30).


  • Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways. For the devious are an abomination to the LORD; but He is intimate with the upright(3:31-32).


  • The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the dwelling of the righteous(3:33).


  • God scoffs at the scoffers, yet He gives grace to the afflicted(3:34).


  • The wise will inherit honor, but fools display dishonor(3:35).


  • HEAR, O sons, the instruction of King Solomon[a father], and give attention that you may gain understanding, for I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my instruction(4:1-2).


  • Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth(4:5).


  • Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; love her, and she will watch over you(4:6).


  • The beginning of wisdom is: acquire wisdom; and with all your acquiring, get understanding(4:7).


  • Prize wisdom, and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a garland of grace; she will present you with a crown of beauty(4:8-9).


  • Hear King Solomon and accept his sayings and the years of your life will be many(4:10).


  • King Solomon has directed you in the way of wisdom; he has led you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; and if you run, you will not stumble(4:11-12).


  • Take hold of instruction; do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life(4:13).


  • Do not enter the path of the wicked And do not proceed in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not pass by it; turn away from it and pass on(4:14-15).


  • The wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil; and they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble(4:16).


  • The wicked eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence(4:17).


  • The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day(4:18).


  • "My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body" says King Solomon(4:20-22).


  • Put away from you a deceitful mouth and put devious speech far from you(4:24).


  • Let your eyes look directly ahead and let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you(4:25).


  • Watch the path of your feet and all your ways will be established(4:26).


  • Do not turn to the right nor to the left; turn your foot from evil(4:27).


  • Give attention to Solomon's wisdom, and incline your ear to his understanding. This is so you may observe discretion and that your lips may reserve knowledge(5:1-2).


  • The lips of an adulteress drip honey and smoother than oil is her speech, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword(5:3-4).


  • The adulteress' feet go down to death, her steps take hold of Sheol(5:5).


  • The adulteress does not ponder the path of life. Her ways are unstable, she does not know it(5:6).


  • Now then, my sons, listen to me[King Solomon] and do not depart from the words of my mouth(5:7).


  • Keep your way far from the adulteress and do not go near the door of her house, or you will give your vigor to others and your years to the cruel one. Strangers will be filled with your strength and your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien. You will groan at your final end, when your flesh and your body are consumed. You will say, "How I have hated instruction! My heart has spurned reproof! I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to my instructors! I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation."(5:8-14)


  • Drink water from your own cistern[wife] and fresh water from your own well. Should your springs be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be yours alone and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. As a loving hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be exhilarated always with her love(5:15-19).


  • For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress and embrace the bosom of a foreigner? For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He watches all his paths(5:20-21).


  • The wicked's own iniquities will capture him. He will be held with the cords of his sin. He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray(5:22-23).


  • MY son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given a pledge for a stranger, if you have been snared with the words of your mouth, have been caught with the words of your mouth, do this then, my son, and deliver yourself. Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor. Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand And like a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief, officer or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest. How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep(6:1-9)?


  • A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and your poverty will come in like a vagabond and your need like an armed man(6:10-11).


  • A worthless person, a wicked man, is the one who walks with a perverse mouth, who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who points with his fingers; who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, who spreads strife. Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing(6:12-15).


  • There are six things which the LORD hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers(6:16-19).


  • My son, observe the commandment of your father and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck(6:20-21).


  • When you walk about, the commandment of your father and the teaching of your mother will guide you. When you sleep, they will watch over you, and when you awake, they will talk to you. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light. Reproofs for discipline are the way of life. To keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress(6:22-24).


  • Do not desire the evil woman or adulteress' beauty in your heart, nor let her capture you with her eyelids. For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, and an adulteress hunts for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not go unpunished(6:25-29).


  • Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry. But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold. He must give all the substance of his house(6:30-31).


  • The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense. He who would destroy himself does it. Wounds and disgrace he will find, and his reproach will not be blotted out. For jealousy enrages a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not accept any ransom, nor will he be satisfied though you give many gifts(6:32-35).


  • MY son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you(7:1).


  • Keep my commandments and live, and 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 understanding your intimate friend, that they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words(7:2-5).


  • At the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, and I saw among the naive, and discerned among the youths a young man lacking sense, passing through the street near her corner. He takes the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. Behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. She is boisterous and rebellious, her feet do not remain at home. She is now in the streets, now in the squares, and lurks by every corner. So she seizes him and kisses him and with a brazen face she says to him: "I was due to offer peace offerings. Today I have paid my vows. Therefore I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you. I have spread my couch with coverings, with colored linens of Egypt. I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning. Let us delight ourselves with caresses. For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey. He has taken a bag of money with him, at the full moon he will come home." With her many persuasions she entices him; with her flattering lips she seduces him. Suddenly he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool, until an arrow pierces through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, so he does not know that it will cost him his life. Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my mouth. Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways. Do not stray into her paths. For many are the victims she has cast down, and numerous are all her slain. Her house is the way to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death(7:6-27).


  • DOES not wisdom call, and understanding lift up her voice? On top of the heights beside the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand. Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, at the entrance of the doors, she cries out: "To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. O naive ones, understand prudence. O fools, understand wisdom. Listen, for I will speak noble things; and the opening of my lips will reveal right things. For my mouth will utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverted in them. They are all straightforward to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge. Take my instruction and not silver, and knowledge rather than choicest gold. For wisdom is better than jewels. All desirable things cannot compare with her. I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. Pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverted mouth, I hate. Counsel is mine and sound wisdom. I am understanding, power is mine. By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, all who judge rightly. I love those who love me. Those who diligently seek me will find me. Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, and my yield better than choicest silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice, to endow those who love me with wealth, that I may fill their treasuries. The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water, before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth, while He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world. When He established the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, when He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed, when He set for the sea its boundary so that the water would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth; Then I was beside Him, as a master workman. I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in the world, His earth, and having my delight in the sons of men. Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, for blessed are they who keep my ways. Heed instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts. For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD. But he who sins against me injures himself. All those who hate me love death(8:1-36).


  • WISDOM has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars. She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine. She has also set her table. She has sent out her maidens, she calls from the tops of the heights of the city: Whoever is naive, let him turn in here! To him who lacks understanding she says, "Come, eat of my food and drink of the wine I have mixed. Forsake your folly and live, and proceed in the way of understanding."(9:1-6)


  • He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, and he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself(9:7).


  • Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you. Reprove a wise man and he will love you(9:8).


  • Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser(9:9).


  • Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning(9:9).


  • The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding(9:10).


  • For by the LORD your days will be multiplied, and years of life will be added to you(9:11).


  • If you are wise, you are wise for yourself(9:12).


  • If you scoff, you alone will bear it(9:12).


  • The woman of folly is boisterous, she is naive and knows nothing(9:13).


  • She sits at the doorway of her house, on a seat by the high places of the city, calling to those who pass by, who are making their paths straight: Whoever is naive, let him turn in here. To him who lacks understanding she says, "Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol."(9:14-18)


  • A wise son makes a father glad(10:1).


  • A foolish son is a grief to his mother(10:1).


  • Ill-gotten gains do not profit(10:2).


  • Righteousness delivers from death(10:2).


  • The LORD will not allow the righteous to hunger(10:3).


  • God will reject the craving of the wicked(10:3).


  • Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich(10:4).


  • He who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely(10:5).


  • He who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully(10:5).


  • Blessings are on the head of the righteous(10:6).


  • The mouth of the wicked conceals violence(10:6).


  • The memory of the righteous is blessed(10:7).


  • The name of the wicked will rot(10:7).


  • The wise of heart will receive commands(10:8).


  • A babbling fool will be ruined(10:8).


  • He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out(10:9).


  • He who winks the eye causes trouble, and a babbling fool will be ruined(10:10).


  • The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life(10:11).


  • The mouth of the wicked conceals violence(10:11).


  • Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions(10:12).


  • On the lips of the discerning, wisdom is found(10:13).


  • A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding(10:13).


  • Wise men store up knowledge, but with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand(10:14).


  • The rich man's wealth is his fortress(10:15).


  • The ruin of the poor is their poverty(10:15).


  • The wages of the righteous is life, the income of the wicked, punishment(10:16).


  • He is on the path of life who heeds instruction(10:17).


  • But he who ignores reproof goes astray(10:17).


  • He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who spreads slander is a fool(10:18).


  • When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable(10:19).


  • He who restrains his lips is wise(10:19).


  • The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver, the heart of the wicked is worth little(10:20).


  • The lips of the righteous feed many(10:21).


  • Fools die for lack of understanding(10:21).


  • It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, and He adds no sorrow to it(10:22).


  • Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool, and so is wisdom to a man of understanding(10:23).


  • What the wicked fears will come upon him(10:24).


  • The desire of the righteous will be granted(10:24).


  • When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous has an everlasting foundation(10:25).


  • Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the lazy one to those who send him(10:26).


  • The fear of the LORD prolongs life, But the years of the wicked will be shortened(10:27).


  • The hope of the righteous is gladness(10:28).


  • The expectation of the wicked perishes(10:28).


  • The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but a ruin to the workers of iniquity(10:29).


  • The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not dwell in the land(10:30).


  • The mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom, the perverted tongue will be cut out(10:31).


  • The lips of the righteous bring forth what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked what is perverted(10:32).


  • A FALSE balance is an abomination to the LORD, But a just weight is His delight(11:1).


  • When pride comes, then comes dishonor(11:2).


  • With the humble is wisdom(11:2).


  • The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them(11:3).


  • Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death(11:4).


  • The righteousness of the blameless will smooth his way, but the wicked will fall by his own wickedness(11:5).


  • The righteousness of the upright will deliver them(11:6).


  • The treacherous will be caught by their own greed(11:6).


  • When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, and the hope of strong men perishes(11:7).


  • The righteous is delivered from trouble, but the wicked takes his place(11:8).


  • With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor(11:9).


  • Through knowledge the righteous will be delivered(11:9).


  • When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is joyful shouting(11:10).


  • By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down(11:11).


  • He who despises his neighbor lacks sense(11:12).


  • A man of understanding keeps silent(11:12).


  • He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy conceals a matter(11:13).


  • Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory(11:14).


  • He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it(11:15).


  • He who hates being a guarantor is secure(11:15).


  • A gracious woman attains honor, and ruthless men attain riches(11:16).


  • The merciful man does himself good(11:17).


  • The cruel man does himself harm(11:17).


  • The wicked earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness gets a true reward(11:18).


  • He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life, and he who pursues evil will bring about his own death(11:19).


  • The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD(11:20).


  • The blameless in their walk are His delight(11:20).


  • Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished(11:21).


  • The descendants of the righteous will be delivered(11:21).


  • As a ring of gold in a swine's snout so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion(11:22).


  • The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath(11:23).


  • There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want(11:24).


  • The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered(11:25).


  • He who withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it(11:26).


  • He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who seeks evil, evil will come to him(11:27).


  • He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like the green leaf(11:28).


  • He who troubles his own house will inherit wind, and the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted(11:29).


  • The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life(11:30).


  • He who is wise wins souls(11:30).


  • If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner(11:31)!


  • WHOEVER loves discipline loves knowledge(12:1).


  • He who hates reproof is stupid(12:1).


  • A good man will obtain favor from the LORD(12:2).


  • God will condemn a man who devises evil(12:2).


  • A man will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved(12:3).


  • An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones(12:4).


  • The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful(12:5).


  • The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood(12:6).


  • The mouth of the upright will deliver them(12:6).


  • The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand(12:7).


  • A man will be praised according to his insight(12:8).


  • One of perverse mind will be despised(12:8).


  • Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant than he who honors himself and lacks bread(12:9).


  • A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal(12:10).


  • The compassion of the wicked is cruel(12:10).


  • He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who pursues worthless things lacks sense(12:11).


  • The wicked man desires the booty of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit(12:12).


  • An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips(12:13).


  • The righteous will escape from trouble(12:13).


  • A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words, and the deeds of a man's hands will return to him(12:14).


  • The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel(12:15).


  • A fool's anger is known at once, but a prudent man conceals dishonor(12:16).


  • He who speaks truth tells what is right, but a false witness, deceit(12:17).


  • There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing(12:18).


  • Truthful lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only for a moment(12:19).


  • Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil(12:20).


  • Counselors of peace have joy(12:20).


  • No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble(12:21).


  • Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight(12:22).


  • A prudent man conceals knowledge(12:23).


  • The heart of fools proclaims folly(12:23).


  • The hand of the diligent will rule(12:24).


  • The slack hand will be put to forced labor(12:24).


  • Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a good word makes it glad(12:25).


  • The righteous is a guide to his neighbor(12:26).


  • The way of the wicked leads them astray(12:26).


  • A lazy man does not catch his prey(12:27).


  • The precious possession of a man is diligence(12:27).


  • In the way of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death(12:28).


  • A WISE son accepts his father's discipline(13:1).


  • A scoffer does not listen to rebuke(13:1).


  • From the fruit of a man's mouth he enjoys good(13:2).


  • The desire of the treacherous is violence(13:2).


  • The one who guards his mouth preserves his life. The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin(13:3).


  • The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is made fat(13:4).


  • A righteous man hates falsehood(13:5).


  • A wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully(13:5).


  • Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless(13:6).


  • Wickedness subverts the sinner(13:6).


  • There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth(13:7).


  • The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but the poor hears no rebuke(13:8).


  • The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out(13:9).


  • Through insolence comes nothing but strife(13:10).


  • Wisdom is with those who receive counsel(13:10).


  • Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, but the one who gathers by labor increases it(13:11).


  • Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life(13:12).


  • The one who despises the word will be in debt to it, but the one who fears the commandment will be rewarded(13:13).


  • The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, to turn aside from the snares of death(13:14).


  • Good understanding produces favor, but the way of the treacherous is hard(13:15).


  • Every prudent man acts with knowledge(13:16).


  • A fool displays folly(13:16).


  • A wicked messenger falls into adversity, but a faithful envoy brings healing(13:17).


  • Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline, but he who regards reproof will be honored(13:18).


  • Desire realized is sweet to the soul(13:19).


  • It is an abomination to fools to turn away from evil(13:19).


  • He who walks with wise men will be wise(13:20).


  • The companion of fools will suffer harm(13:20).


  • Adversity pursues sinners(13:21).


  • The righteous will be rewarded with prosperity(13:21).


  • A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children(13:22).


  • The wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous(13:22).


  • Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice(13:23).


  • He who withholds his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently(13:24).


  • The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the stomach of the wicked is in need(13:25).


  • THE wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands(14:1).


  • He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD(14:2).


  • He who is devious in his ways despises God(14:2).


  • In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his back(14:3).


  • The lips of the wise will protect them(14:3).


  • Where no oxen are, the manger is clean, but much revenue comes by the strength of the ox(14:4).


  • A trustworthy witness will not lie(14:5).


  • A false witness utters lies(14:5).


  • A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none(14:6).


  • Knowledge is easy to one who has understanding(14:6).


  • Leave the presence of a fool, or you will not discern words of knowledge(14:7).


  • The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way(14:8).


  • The foolishness of fools is deceit(14:8).


  • Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will(14:9).


  • The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy(14:10).


  • The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish(14:11).


  • There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death(14:12).


  • Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, and the end of joy may be grief(14:13).


  • The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways(14:14).


  • A good man will be satisfied with his own ways(14:14).


  • The naive believes everything, but the sensible man considers his steps(14:15).


  • A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is arrogant and careless(14:16).


  • A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated(14:17).


  • The naive inherit foolishness, but the sensible are crowned with knowledge(14:18).


  • The evil will bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous(14:19).


  • The poor is hated even by his neighbor, but those who love the rich are many(14:20).


  • He who despises his neighbor sins(14:21).


  • Happy is he who is gracious to the poor(14:21).


  • Will they not go astray who devise evil(14:22)?


  • Kindness and truth will be to those who devise good(14:22).


  • In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty(14:23).


  • The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is foolishness(14:24).


  • A truthful witness saves lives(14:25).


  • He who utters lies is treacherous(14:26).


  • In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, and his children will have refuge(14:26).


  • The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death(14:27).


  • In a multitude of people is a king's glory, but in the dearth of people is a prince's ruin(14:28).


  • He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who is quick-tempered exalts folly(14:29).


  • A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones(14:30).


  • He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, but he who is gracious to the needy honors Him(14:31).


  • The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, but the righteous has a refuge when he dies(14:32).


  • Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, but in the hearts of fools it is made known(14:33).


  • Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people(14:34).


  • The king's favor is toward a servant who acts wisely, but his anger is toward him who acts shamefully(14:35).


    2 JOHN




  • The truth abides in us[Christians] and will be with us forever(1:2).


  • Grace, mercy and peace will be with us[Chrisitans], from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love(1:3).


  • We have received commandment from the Father to walk in the truth(1:4).


  • We are to love one another. This is love, that we walk according to God's commandments(1:5-6).


  • Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist(1:7).


  • Watch yourselves, that you do not loose what has been accomplished in you(1:8).


  • Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God(1:9).


  • The person who abides in the teaching of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son(1:9).


  • If anyone comes to you and does not bring the teaching of Christ, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds(1:10).


    3 JOHN




  • You are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren in Christ, and especially when they are strangers. We ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers with the truth(1:5,8).


  • Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good(1:11).


  • The one who does good is of God(1:11).


  • The one who does evil has not seen God(1:11).


    JUDE




  • Certain people creep in unnoticed into the Church. They are ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ(1:3-4).


  • The Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe(1:5).


  • The angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, God has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire(1:6-7).


  • The certain people that creep into the Church defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties in the same way as Sodom and Gomorrah did(1:8).


  • These certain men that creep into the Church revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed(1:10).


  • The certain men that creep into the Church are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever(1:12-13).


  • Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about these certain men that creep into the Church. He said, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts. They speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage(1:14-16).


  • You, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts. These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit(1:17-19).


  • Have mercy on some, who are doubting. Save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh(1:22-23).


  • God is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy.


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