Proverbs 10:4,13-15 –
Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth…Wisdom is
found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of one
who has no sense. The wise store up knowledge, but the
mouth of a fool invites ruin. The wealth of the rich is their
fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
Proverbs
2:1-5 – My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding—indeed, if you call out
for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you
look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 13:3 – Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will
come to ruin.
Application:
- · “Store up…within you” just as the psalmist hid God’s word in his heart to avoid sin.
- · The ability to control the tongue is one of the clearest marks of wisdom.
- · Wealth brings friends and power—but ultimate security is found only in God. Poverty has no security—as it has no influence or friends.
- · Many proverbs praise diligence and the profit it brings, and they condemn laziness as a cause of hunger and poverty.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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