Proverbs 10
Time To Get Wise
Proverbs 10
Context
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Kant, I., 1784. Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose. (use)
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler pays attention to false information, all his officials will be liars. (use)
Ecclesiastes 1:18
The wiser you are, the more worries you have; the more you know, the more it hurts. (use)
Luke 24:27
And Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures, beginning with the books of Moses and the writings of all the prophets. (use)
Wisdom
Job 32:8
But it is the Spirit of Almighty God that comes to human beings and gives them wisdom. (use)
Deuteronomy 6:4-7
"Israel, remember this! The LORD — and the LORD alone — is our God. Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Never forget these commands that I am giving you today. Teach them to your children. Repeat them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working. (use)
Psalm 53:2
God looks down from heaven at the human race to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him. (use)
Psalm 90:12
Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise. (use)
Jeremiah 8:9
Your wise men are put to shame; they are confused and trapped. They have rejected my words; what wisdom have they got now? (use)
Romans 14:23
But if they have doubts about what they eat, God condemns them when they eat it, because their action is not based on faith. And anything that is not based on faith is sin. (use)
Proverbs Selections
Proverbs 1:7
To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the LORD . Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn. (use)
Proverbs 2:6
It is the LORD who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding. (use)
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. (use)
Proverbs 3:6
Remember the LORD in everything you do, and he will show you the right way. (use)
Proverbs 4:23
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts. (use)
Proverbs 5:21
The LORD sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching. (use)
Proverbs 6:9
How long is the lazy man going to lie in bed? When is he ever going to get up? (use)
Proverbs 7:4
Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend. (use)
Proverbs 8:35
Those who find me [wisdom] find life, and the LORD will be pleased with them. (use)
Proverbs 9:6
Leave the company of ignorant people, and live. Follow the way of knowledge. (use)
Proverbs 9:10
To be wise you must first have reverence for the LORD . If you know the Holy One, you have understanding. (use)
Approach
Proverbs 26:4-5
If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it. Give a silly answer to a silly question, and the one who asked it will realize that he's not as clever as he thinks. (use)
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Remember the LORD in everything you do, and he will show you the right way. (use)
The popular evangelical solution that these are not promises but probabilities, though containing an element of truth, raises theological, practical, and psychological problems by stating the matter badly...A psychologically well person could scarcely trust God with all his heart (Prov 3:5) knowing that he usually, but not always, keeps his obligations.
Waltke, B.K., 2004. The Book Of Proverbs: Chapters 1-15. Eerdmans, Mich. (use)
The assumption is that if I meet my part in the conditional statement of the Proverb, then the attendant blessing should come automatically. This would be true if we did not live in a broken world, but we do.
Slayton, S. 2016. Six Tips for Preaching from Proverbs. (use)
Proverbs 10
Proverbs 10:4
Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich. (use)
Proverbs 10:22
It is the LORD 's blessing that makes you wealthy. Hard work can make you no richer. (use)
Psalm 127:1-2
If the LORD does not build the house, the work of the builders is useless; if the LORD does not protect the city, it is useless for the sentries to stand guard. It is useless to work so hard for a living, getting up early and going to bed late. For the LORD provides for those he loves, while they are asleep. (use)
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds: they do not sow seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more than birds? (use)
Proverbs 10:1
These are Solomon's proverbs: Wise children make their fathers proud of them; foolish ones bring their mothers grief. (use)
- A choice to be made as there are two ways to live wise or foolishly.
1 Kings 11:3-4
Solomon married 700 princesses and also had 300 concubines. They made him turn away from God and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. (use)
Isaiah 29:13-14
The Lord said, "These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized. So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless. (use)
Isaiah 55:8-9
"My thoughts," says the LORD , "are not like yours, and my ways are different from yours. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways and thoughts above yours." (use)
Christ
Mark 6:2
On the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue. Many people were there; and when they heard him, they were all amazed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked. "What wisdom is this that has been given him? How does he perform miracles? (use)
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’ (use)
Luke 12:31
Instead, be concerned with his Kingdom, and he will provide you with these things. (use)
Colossians 2:2-3
He is the key that opens all the hidden treasures of God's wisdom and knowledge. I do this in order that they may be filled with courage and may be drawn together in love, and so have the full wealth of assurance which true understanding brings. In this way they will know God's secret, which is Christ himself. (use)
1 Corinthians 1:18-19
For the message about Christ's death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power. The scripture says: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and set aside the understanding of the scholars." (use)
1 Corinthians 1:24-25
...but for those whom God has called, both Jews and Gentiles, this message is Christ, who is the power of God and the wisdom of God. For what seems to be God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and what seems to be God's weakness is stronger than human strength. (use)
1 Corinthians 1:30
But God has brought you into union with Christ Jesus, and God has made Christ to be our wisdom. By him we are put right with God; we become God's holy people and are set free. (use)