“How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver” Proverbs16: 16. We’ve all heard of the lottery winners who ended up destitute and sometimes dead because of...
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits” Proverbs 18: 21. One reason the tongue has the power of life and death is...
“Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content” Philippians 4: 11. At first glance when we read this, we might be tempted...
“. . . Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ or lest I be poor and steal and profane the...
“In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were...
“Long life is in her [wisdom’s] right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those...
“Her [wisdom’s]ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace” Proverbs 3:17. According to this verse wisdom’s ways are pleasant and peaceful, so why don’t people choose them more often? To read the...
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to...
“And the Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat,...
“. . . but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” Genesis 2:17. We are told in this...