The ideas in this verse about moderation are almost completely lost on this generation. We are a generation of excess and indulgence. We do

Solomon states rather clearly in this proverb that you can be expected to suffer even if you are righteous. Disasters will happen to you – b

If you want to please your parents in the deepest way possible, embrace God's standards of righteousness. That will bring joy to the inn

Solomon says, through this proverb, that wisdom and foolishness and ethics and morality extend to business economics and how one treats thei

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

This verse is a caution to would-be borrowers. You must have a certain way to pay or you may be reduced to absolute poverty. Do not enter in

The soul is kept by what your lifestyle is and not just the set of things that you say you believe.

This is a key verse about the nature of friendship and success. Every friendship or working partnership is because of a benefit that one per

A person with no soul cannot really contain wisdom. It is like trying to store dishes in a kitchen without cabinets.

This is completely against the current culture. They value money and wealth as the number one God and good of this land. It distorts everyth

This is another one of the comparison proverbs that helps us see things more clearly by comparing one thing that looks very desirable with s

Do not put a lot of confidence in a fool’s counsel or actions, or it will sting you because you know that a fool will "bend" the r

When a person is strategic in the pursuit of their goals, they learn lots of things and develop significant skills that they would not learn

The fool or selfish and impulsive person immediately lets people know in words, actions, and attitude that they did not get what they were e

This is one of the delightful proverbs that tells us about the real world. It says that if you want honor or value in the eyes of lots of pe

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

The key idea here is that Solomon wants leaders to think before they make decisions and not just act out of their own universe or their own

The strongest sexual organ in the human body is the mind, and the adulteress uses this organ to draw the hesitant person into her web. She c

It is interesting to let the power of this verse speak to us in a modern culture that has been force-fed a theology that God is only love an