The writer of this proverb is saying that unleashing a selfish person from the burden of having to worry about where the next meal is coming

The angry person is one who is used to getting what they want even if what they want they should not have. So it is this driven selfishness

This person who is so fixated on what he/she wants that nothing else matters is a person with an evil eye. I think about the rock stars and

It is important for parents to train this selfishness out of their children when they are young. All children are born with this bent toward

Solomon reminds us that we live in a world that is ruled by the Almighty, and you personally do not have to be the avenger of everything tha

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

This striking description of the value of wisdom is meant to cause you to stop and focus on what you gain when you know the wise thing to do

This is the type of person that Solomon is trying to give us insight into – the person who lives outside of God's moral boundary structu

This is the Hebrew word ra which means evil, distress, misery. The idea here is the calamity and misery that comes from violating God's

A child must know where the boundaries are – both the absolute boundaries and the guardrails protecting those absolute boundaries. If the pa

The wise person, the righteous person, the person of faith is a person of love and caring. They cannot shut out the needs of those who have

This is an interesting proverb because it emphasizes something in the original that is lost in the translation. Solomon gives us crucial ins

This is a bold statement about cause and effect and how it impacts leadership.

This one verse of Proverbs points to a fact that our western culture has been in denial about a hundred years now. There will be a Judgment

The context of these verses is the negative of trying to gain through cheating orphans and the oppressed. The idea here is do not try and bu

Have you ever thought about the role we play in our own difficulties? We have a lot to do with the test, trials, and temptations we go throu

This suggests that Jesus wants us to have a dialogue with God about the kinds of testings, trials, and even temptations that could come our

These verses are a couplet which describes wisdom toward those who are in desperate circumstances that would be easy to take advantage of. B

Jesus shocks us with His instruction. He tells us that we will need to have many conversations with God about the spiritual warfare going on

This is an interesting proverb because it details a cause-and-effect sequence that one would not expect. It also suggests ways to educate ce