Proverbs 18 trains the tongue and the heart: listen before answering, refuse gossip, trust the Lord as refuge, and prize loyal love. Learn how words plant life or harm and how humility leads to honor under God’s watch.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Proverbs 18 trains the tongue and the heart: listen before answering, refuse gossip, trust the Lord as refuge, and prize loyal love. Learn how words plant life or harm and how humility leads to honor under God’s watch.
Proverbs 17 shows how peace, justice, friendship, and restrained words build communities God delights in. Learn to live this wisdom under the Lord who tests hearts.
Proverbs 16 aligns everyday planning with God’s sovereign ordering of outcomes and calls us to humility, integrity, and gracious speech. Walk this path with open-handed plans, honest scales, and words that heal under the Lord who establishes our steps.
Proverbs 15 trains everyday wisdom—soft answers, honest prayer, teachable hearts, and humble choices. Under the Lord’s eye, these habits turn houses into refuges and set feet on the upward path of life.
Proverbs 14 trains a life that is sturdy in storms and kind to neighbors—built on the fear of the Lord, truthful speech, diligent work, and mercy. These habits lift households and cities now and preview the world to come.
Proverbs 13 shapes ordinary faithfulness—receiving correction, guarding words, steady work, patient money, and wise friendships—under God’s eye. Its ache and joy of hope deferred and fulfilled lead us toward the tree of life in Christ.
Proverbs 10 launches Solomon’s concise contrasts, forming habits of speech, work, and integrity under the Lord’s eye. Storms expose foundations, but those who fear the Lord stand firm and become a fountain of life to many.
Proverbs 6 trains everyday faithfulness—wise promises, diligent work, truthful words, and marital fidelity—under God’s guiding light. Christ fulfills this wisdom by writing God’s ways on our hearts through the Spirit.
Proverbs 4 hands down wisdom from one generation to the next and sets two roads before us. It centers on guarding the heart so that words, eyes, and steps align with the path that shines ever brighter.
Leviticus 5 addresses failures of truth, unnoticed uncleanness, and rash oaths with confession, graded offerings, and, where needed, restitution plus a fifth. The chapter prepares us for Christ as the true guilt offering who cleanses consciences, repairs loss, and forms a truthful, merciful people.
James 4 traces quarrels to desires at war and calls believers back by grace. Submit to God, resist the devil, speak without slander, and plan with “if the Lord wills.”
James 3 confronts the power of the tongue and the posture of the heart. It contrasts envy’s counterfeit “wisdom” with wisdom from above and calls the church to peacemaking that plants for a harvest.