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Proverbs 15 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath
1 A soft answer breaketh anger: and a hard word raiseth up fury.
2 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: the mouth of fools boileth forth folly.
3 In every place the eyes of our Lord behold the good and the evil.
4 A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall break the spirit.
5 A fool scorneth the discipline of his father: but he that regardeth reprehensions, shall become more prudent. In abundant justice there is greater force: but the cogitations of the impious shall be rooted out.
6 The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of the impious is perturbation.
7 The lips of the wise shall sow knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.
8 The victims of the impious are abominable to our Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.
9 The way of the impious is abomination to our Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved of him.
10 The doctrine is evil of them that forsake the way of life: he that hateth reprehensions shall die.
11 Hell and perdition are before our Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?
12 The pestilent man loveth not him that rebuketh him: nor goeth to the wise.
13 A glad heart cheereth the face: in pensiveness of mind the spirit is cast down.
14 The heart of the wise seeketh doctrine: and the mouth of fools is fed with unskillfulness.
15 All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is as it were a continual feast.
16 Better is a little with the fear of our Lord, than great treasures and unsatiable.
17 It is better to be called to herbs with charity: than to a fatted calf with hatred.
18 An angry man stirreth brawls: he that is patient appeaseth those that are raised.
19 The way of the slothful is as an hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.
20 A wise son maketh the father joyful: and the foolish man despiseth his mother.
21 Folly is joy to a fool: and the wise man directeth his steps.
22 Cogitations are dissipated where there is no counsel: but where many counsellers are, they are confirmed.
23 A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.
24 The path of life above the learned, that he may decline from the lowest hell.
25 Our Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will make sure the borders of the widow.
26 Evil cogitations are an abomination to our Lord: and pure speech most beautiful shall be confirmed of him.
27 He that pursueth avarice disturbeth his house: but he that hateth gifts shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged: and by the fear of our Lord every one declineth from evil.
28 The mind of the just meditateth obedience: the mouth of the impious redoundeth with evils.
29 Our Lord is far from the impious: and he will hear the prayers of the just.
30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the soul: a good name fatteth the bones.
31 The ear that heareth the reprehensions of life, shall abide in the midst of the wise.
32 He that rejecteth discipline, despiseth his soul: but he that yieldeth to reprehensions, is a possessor of the heart.
33 The fear of our Lord, the discipline of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.
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