“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”-Jeremiah 17:9
I was studying with someone this week and this verse came up in conversation. The question was this, “Can we trust feelings to tell us the truth of God. The answer is “no” and this verse tells us why. The flesh wants what is against the Spirit. If I found my religion one what I want, what my heart wants had become my god. So how do we learn the truths of God. Train your heart with the words of the living God. They will teach you, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” Selected Proverbs, presented without comment.
“Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.”-Proverbs 9:8
“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”-Proverbs 15:3
“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.”-Proverbs 12:15-16
“Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.”-Proverbs 14:4
“A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.”-Proverbs 15:18
“Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.”-Proverbs 17:5
“The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.”-Proverbs 20:4
“To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”-Proverbs 21:3
“Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.”-Proverbs 23:6-7
“For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.”-Proverbs 23:27-28
“Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.”-Proverbs 23:31-32
“Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand in the place of the great, for it is better to be told, ‘Come up here,’ than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.”-Proverbs 25:6-7
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.”-Proverbs 25:11
“It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.”-Proverbs 25:24
“For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.”-Proverbs 26:20-21
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.”-Proverbs 27:6
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