WORD FOR THE WISE

PROVERB 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. ...

PROVERB 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray....

PROVERB 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. ...

PROVERB 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth. ...

PROVERB 12:26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them. ...

PROVERB 13:15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard....

PROVERB 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. ...

PROVERB 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. ...

PROVERB 21:25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. ...

PROVERB 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. ...