Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+027   Proverbs 27 (ESV) 5Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy… 9Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. 10 Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+026   Proverbs 26 (ESV) 20For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. 21 As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. 22 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the […]

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 […]