Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+027     Proverbs 27 (ESV) 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy… 9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. 10 Do not forsake your friend…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+026     Proverbs 26 (ESV) 20 For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. 21 As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. 22 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+025     Proverbs 25 (ESV) 1 These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied… 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. 12 Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear… 15…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+024     Proverbs 24 (ESV) 23 These also are sayings of the wise… 30 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, 31 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+023     Proverbs 23 (ESV) 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+022     Proverbs 22 (ESV) 6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it… 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him… 17 Incline your…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+021     Proverbs 21 (ESV) 1 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice……

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+020     Proverbs 20 (ESV) 6 Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? 7 The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him! 8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes. 9 Who can say, “I…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+019     Proverbs 19 (ESV) 13 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. 14 House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord… 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+018     Proverbs 18 (ESV) 4 The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook… 6 A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating… 13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. 14 A…