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Whetting Your Appetite for Proverbs

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Introduction
  • Proverbs 1:1-7 – Proverbs is to help us receive and understand wisdom from God. Part of that is humility.
    • There are various types of proverbs.
    Contrast
    • Proverbs 13:1, 20, 3
      • Comparison
      • Proverbs 26:1, 11
        • Straight-forward advice
        • Proverbs 18:13 – Compare John 7:51.
          • Extended
          • Proverbs 24:30-34
            • Why aren’t these wise sayings ALWAYS true?
            These are general truths with exceptions.
            • Ecclesiastes 9:11
            • Proverbs 10:4 – Compare James 5:4.
            • Proverbs 19:9
              • Some passages may pertain to promises unique to Old Covenant Israel.
              • Deuteronomy 28:1-4, 15
              • Proverbs 30:1; 31:1 – Some proverbs were written by other men (not Solomon).
              • Proverbs 12:21 – See II Timothy 3:12; 4:8
                • Different circumstances call for different applications of wisdom.
                • Proverbs 26:4-5 – There are times when you may or may not want to answer a fool.
                • Proverbs 18:22; 21:9 – Is marriage good or not? Generally it is a great blessing, but there are cases where it is a bad relationship.
                  • Dave’s faves
                  • Proverbs 15:1 – “A gentle answer turns away wrath”
                  • Proverbs 31:30 – “Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain”
                  • Proverbs 16:32 – “He who is slow to anger is better than the might”
                  • Proverbs 18:17 – “The first to plead his case seems right …”
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