Notice the liar is treacherous. The liar is duplicitous. Liars look like they are doing you a favor when they are really doing something to

Notice that the focus of this proverb is on morality that we are aware of, but the benefit of being moral is not what we typically think a l

One has to believe that you are superior to those whose goods you seize. Your gaining is coming at great expense to your soul.

It is painful to tell the truth at times. It often involves taking responsibility for mistakes and errors that you would just as soon avoid,

Whatever God says is important is different from what your culture says is important. God is right and the culture is wrong. We, as a cultur

Solomon begins a triplet of insights into specific kinds of people with this comparison of violent instruments and the person who would betr

Proverbs 19:9 "A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who tells lies will perish." The kernels of truth that are contained in this proverb are so crucial to maintaining equilibrium in a sinful world where it looks like evil, selfishness, and sin triumph. The people who lie are often those who look like they are making the most progress. The skilled liar who can tell people what they want to hear makes fantastic progress at the beginning, and it seems that the honest p

Proverbs 19:5 "A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who tells lies will not escape." Everybody lies – it’s no big deal – is what many people think in our culture. This is not true. God, through Solomon, wants to point out the consequences of lying and breaking the 9th commandment. There are not enough reminders of the dangers of lying. witness The word witness is the Hebrew word ed. It comes from the root word which means to repeat, return, or do again. The idea see