Proverbs 10:15-16 – The wealth of the rich is their fortified
city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. The wages of
the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.
Proverbs
3:1-2 – My son, do not forget my teaching,
but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your
life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
Proverbs 1:11-16,30-31 – If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless
soul; let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who
go down to the pit; we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder; cast lots with us; we
will all share the loot”—my son, do not go along with them,
do not set foot on their
paths; for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to
shed blood…Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of
their schemes.
Application:
- · Wealth brings friends and power—but ultimate security is found only in God. Poverty has no security—as it has no influence or friends.
- · Fear of the Lord brings health to the body and “adds length to life”. When Solomon prayed for wisdom, God promised him riches as well as long life if he obeyed God’s commands.
- · By contrast, the book of Proverbs teaches that wisdom brings the greatest riches people could ever gain.
- · To refuse wisdom’s “advice” is to suffer the consequences of one’s own foolish “schemes”.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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