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Sometimes it is obvious who is righteous and who is wicked. Other times, it takes a while and we only realize in retrospect who had our...

Memorizing verses is a great practice. When I was a child, at church we had contests to see who could quote the verse that our youth...

These verses seem to provide us with a theme. There is a running contrast between ‘the righteous’ and ‘the wicked’, sometimes under...

From here on in Proverbs, I am going to pick a few verses in each chapter for us to meditate on. This makes sense in that the verses are...

Beginning here, Proverbs looks more like a list of individual folk wisdom without order or connection. Unfortunately, some people treat...

This chapter is the conclusion of Solomon’s introduction which is chapters 1-9. Chapter 10 has a heading for a new section: “The Proverbs...

The following reads like a poem. Solomon has tried, in various ways, to highlight wisdom and to emphasize how close wisdom is to...

In this chapter, Solomon warns his son, or children, or students, to make wise financial decisions and not to be entrapped by a...

I argued last week that the writer, presumably Solomon, uses metaphors, saying one thing in order to understand another thing. Good...

Many commentators assume that Solomon is talking about sex here, a prostitute in Las Vegas, perhaps, or a neighbor’s wife who seduces a...

4: 1-4a.              Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,                                    and be...

3: 21-35.    My child, do not let these escape from your sight: keep sound wisdom and prudence, and they will be life for your soul and...

3: 13-20.            Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding, for the gain from it is better than gain from...

2:16-22.             You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, who forsakes the partner of her...

2:1-15. My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining...

1:20-23.             Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice. At the busiest corner she cries out; at the...

1:8-9                   My child, hear your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching, for they are a fair garland...

Today we begin a series of devotionals based on the Book of Proverbs, which follows Psalms in our Bible. However, in the Hebrew...

3: 1-4.       My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and...