Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+007   Proverbs 7 (ESV) 1 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 2 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3 bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+006   Proverbs 6 (ESV) 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 7 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber,…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+005   Proverbs 5 (ESV) 15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19     a lovely deer, a…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+004   Proverbs 4 (ESV) 20 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+003   Proverbs 3 (ESV) 1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. 3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+002     Proverbs 2 (ESV) 1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for…

  Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+001   Proverbs Introduction Israel understood that the Creator had placed an order in his world that could be discovered. The book of Proverbs captures these lessons in compact, memorable sayings passed down from the wisest among their elders. Many of them are from Solomon, a king renowned for his…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+003   2 Thessalonians 3 (ESV) Pray for Us 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, 2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+002   2 Thessalonians 2 (ESV) The Man of Lawlessness 2 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+001   2 THESSALONIANS INTRODUCTION Apparently only shortly after writing his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul had to write again to correct a false report that he had said the day of the Lord had already come. The day of the Lord was a phrase from the Hebrew prophets to…