Advice Of The Wicked Is Deceitful

Proverbs 12:1-5 – Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid. Good people obtain favor from the Lord, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes. No one can be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted. A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones. The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

Proverbs 1:7,11-16 – The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction…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.

Proverbs 31:31 – Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

Psalm 1:1-2 – Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.

Application:

• ·         Fear of the Lord is a loving reverence for God that includes submission to his lordship and to the commands of His word. “Fools” are those who “hate knowledge” and correction of any kind, who are “quick to quarrel” and “give full vent” to their anger, who are complacent and who trust in themselves rather than in God.
• ·         Honor comes through “humility” and “the fear of the Lord”.
• ·         The goal of sinful men is personal enrichment by theft or oppression, even if they have to commit murder.
• ·         Wisdom brings the greatest riches people could ever gain.
• ·         “Walk in step with the wicked” means order one’s life according to the deliberations and advice of the wicked.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV