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Today’s reading is: Prov. 11-13

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Proverbs Chapter Eleven

  1. The Lord is concerned with how believers conduct their daily business (Prov. 11:1).
  2. Wisdom motivates humility over pride (Prov. 11:2).
  3. Salvation cannot be purchased (Prov. 11:4).
  4. Wise believers are a blessing to their community (Prov. 11:10-11).
  5. Wisdom among believers is a multiplied blessing (Prov. 11:14).
  6. The contrast between physical beauty and soul beauty is wonderfully described (Prov. 11:22; cf. 31:30; 1st Pet. 3:3-4).
  7. Wisdom produces generosity, and benefits the gracious giver (Prov. 11:25; 2nd Cor. 9:6-7).
  8. Prov. 11:31 is quoted in 1st Pet. 4:18.

Proverbs Chapter Twelve

  1. The wise believer comes to appreciate disciplined instruction and needed reproof (Prov. 12:1; cf. 3:11,12; Heb. 12:5-11).
    1. This thought is repeated frequently in Proverbs.
    2. תֹּוכֵחָה towkēchāh #8433: rebuke, correction, reproof (Prov. 1:23,25,30; 3:11; 5:12; 6:23; 10:17; 12:1; 13:18; 15:5,10,31,32; 27:5; 29:1,15).
  2. The believer’s spouse can be his/her greatest blessing, or greatest testing (Prov. 12:4).
    1. Blessing (Prov.  18:22; 19:14; 31:10-25).
    2. Testing (Prov. 19:13; 21:9,19; 27:15,16).
  3. The fool does what is right in his own eyes, but the wise man seeks God’s counsel (Prov. 12:15).
  4. Anxiety has negative physical effects upon a believer’s health, but the Word of God has positive physical effects (Prov. 12:25).

Proverbs Chapter Thirteen

  1. The sluggard is another character of Proverbs, like the fool (Prov. 13:4).
    1. עָצֵל ‘atsēl #6102: sluggish, lazy (Prov. 6:6,9; 10:26; 13:4; 15:19; 19:24; 20:4; 21:25; 22:13; 24:30; 26:13-16).
    2. The answer to laziness is Divine diligence (2nd Tim. 2:15).
  2. Human wealth and Divine wealth are entirely different standards (Prov. 13:7; Rev. 2:9; 3:17).
  3. The Word of God keeps us from the snares of this fallen world system (Prov. 13:14; Ps. 119:105).
  4. Wise believers choose their associations carefully (Prov. 13:20).
  5. It is a believer’s blessing to provide for his descendants (Prov. 13:22a).
  6. It is God’s blessing to take from the unrighteous and provide to the righteous (Prov. 13:22b; 28:8; Job 27:16-17; Ecc. 2:26).
  7. Parental discipline is an expression of love (Prov. 13:24; 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15,17).