Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+025   Proverbs 25 (ESV) 1These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied… 11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. 12 Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear… 15With patience a ruler may […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+024   Proverbs 24 (ESV) 23 These also are sayings of the wise… 30 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, 31 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw and considered it; […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+023   Proverbs 23 (ESV) 22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+022   Proverbs 22 (ESV) 6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it… 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him… 17 Incline your ear, and […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+021   Proverbs 21 (ESV) 1 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice… 30No wisdom, no […]