God is pleased and delighted with the actions of those who display positive righteousness. Those who are wise and loving are not just unblam

When you find a person who is speaking actually lives for God, then what they have to say is very valuable. It is as choice silver. However,

The Septuagint translation is most interesting: does not sit in the plague of the sinners. The idea here is that there are people who do not

Goodness is not just the absence of badness. In fact, goodness can be accomplished in the presence of badness. Goodness means that the real

Those who are pursuing evil are convinced that they will gain life down this path. They have found the secret elixir that will make life wor

Unfortunately this is the moral evaluation that is most prevalent in our day and age. People evaluate whether something is right by whether

This is really the follow-up idea or linked idea from the Proverb 29:17 verse. All people – and not just children – need to be instructed ab

There are many ways that God has of seeing the twisted receive judgment. If not in this life, in the next one.

The context for this truism is that when you are the most despairing of an enjoyable future, when you are the most susceptible to temptation

Solomon brings up, in a different way, God's form of justice: Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap. What the evil person plans

Solomon is selling the advantages of going after wisdom. Everything that temptation promises, wisdom actually delivers with none of the bitt

We find in our day and age an inability to recognize those who should be protected and those who shouldn't be. We must return again to t

God tells us, through Solomon, that the way to preserve your life from extra difficulties that do not have to come your way is to depart fro

This is another of the comparison proverbs through which Solomon draws out attention to the relative value of things. He uses the Jewish tec

The idea here is that the normal – almost unconscious – comments of a person should be evaluated for their truth content. If they are true,

God begins to detail, through the mouth of Solomon, those actions and attitudes that He hates. It is a different list than we might expect i

When a man or woman makes choices to move outside of God's structure of safety, it always results in the separation from joy.

You’ve probably heard the saying, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Prov 23:7) This means that you can become what you think! So, 

A person earns or receives – as compensation or consequences – a particular type of life. The type of life that the person who is righteous

If the person, who is going to show you how to understand and live life lives outside of God's boundaries, then that person will give yo