Ben Dempsey

Proverb A Day

• Proverb 1:32-33 For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.
• Proverbs 2:2,7 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; 
  He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
• Proverbs 3:3 Do not let kindness and truth leave you; 
  Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. 
• Proverbs 4:10-12 Hear, my son, and accept my sayings; and the years of your life will be many. I have directed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; and if you run, you will not stumble. 
• Proverbs 5:1-2 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
• Proverbs 6:4-5 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
• Proverbs 7:1-3 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
• Proverbs 8:33 Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
• Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
• Proverbs 10:9 Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
• Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
• Proverbs 12:19 Truthful lips endure forever,but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
• Proverbs 13:11-12 Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
• Proverbs 14:29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
• Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. 
• Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. 
• Proverbs 17:22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. 
• Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. 
• Proverbs 19:1 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. 
• Proverbs 20:18 Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war. 
• Proverbs 21:30-31 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.  The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.
• Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. 
• Proverbs 23:12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge. 
• Proverbs 24:5-6  A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, 
  for by wise guidance you can wage your war, 
  and in abundance of counselors there is victory. 
• Proverbs 25:28 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
• Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. 
• Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
• Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. 
• Proverbs 29:23 One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. 
• Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
• Proverbs 31:10 An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.