All of us are tempted to keep score of how many times a person is thoughtless or hurtful or inept, but this type of scorekeeping does not im

This is a very interesting descriptor of what internal emotions do to the external actions. When a person hates you no matter what they say

Some people try and act wisely to impress others. The wisdom they speak and do is not really theirs; it is a means to a goal. This approach

This group of verses tells us how to find wisdom; how to find that elusive thing called the wise choice or action. When you don't know w

Solomon wants to educate young people to the ways of the world in this section of the proverb. When a young man comes across an adulteress w

When a person must cover what they really mean by twisting words to make them sound nice or to mean something they don't mean, then you

At any age, we must not be closed to correction or we will be open to huge mistakes that severely wound our lives.

This proverb is about the ways that we are stopped when we do not have wisdom. We are impeded or we stumble. Something blocks us or in some

This principle that has been the bedrock of parenting for four millennia has been abandoned in our day. Correcting, rebuking, chastising the

In this section, Solomon continues to speak of the wonders of wisdom and what it will do if it is allowed full entrance into your life. In t

There are two basic ethical principles for those who embrace wickedness and violence. Who benefits from the actions you do? Does your action

What this section of the proverbs is noticing is that there are four types of foolishness that easily can become family sins. It is also pos

Ladies, does your husband, without thinking, just trust in you? Congratulations, you qualify for the title "virtuous wife." Your r

This is a proverb about the impulsiveness of a fool. There is a consistent flying off the handle; an inability to keep one's emotions in

One of the worst things in the Scriptures is to be wise in your own eyes, and this is what riches add. Wealth is like a new set of glasses t

One of the greatest joys for parents is to see their children making wise decisions. This proverb is directed at the children so that they c

The idea of a fool being like a dog in that it has no sense of propriety and morality is a fascinating comparison. The dog also has a life i

This is the contrasting truth to what will be shared in Proverbs 25:23 about a backbiting tongue. When we really think through how to bring

Two observations jump out. There seems to be two kinds of death here. Those who are being taken away is one form of death, and those who are

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