Proverbs 3
How to Treat Your Neighbors
Attention is given in this passage to doing good for those whom you have the opportunity and power to do so. The poor and the neighbor are to be the objects of this kind of good neighbor policy. From these verses we can see three groups of relation¬ships with others and how to be good …
The Value of Wisdom in Building Relationships
The Lord employed wisdom and understanding when he made the heavens and the earth (v. 19). When the time came for him to flood the world, he employed knowledge known only to himself, so also with the complex weather patterns like rain and dew (v. 20). Our earthly scientist can …
Exhortations to Obedience
If long life and peace are your desire, then keep God’s Law in your heart (vv. 1-2). If you desire steadfast love and faithfulness from God, then bind His Law around your neck & write it upon your heart (v. 3). Then you will find Grace and Success before God and man (v. 4). Who talks like …
The High Value of Wisdom
To be walking with the Lord and walking in that which His word condemns is impossible. The path of blessing is the path of obedience. Throughout this passage it has been made plain that the heart of a man’s wisdom is based upon a proper relationship to God (vv. 9-10). Correction is a vital …