Proverbs 14
Treated in 29 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 14:12 There is a road that looks right to a person, but at the end of it is death. 5
- 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor insults the One who made them, but kindness to the needy honors him. 5
- 14:14 The faithless will get their fill of their own ways, and the good will be rewarded for theirs. 4
- 14:30 A calm heart gives life to the body, but envy is decay in the bones. 4
- 14:23 All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. 3
- 14:10 Each heart knows its own sorrow, and no outsider can share its joy. 2
- 14:13 Even while laughing the heart may ache, and joy can end in sorrow. 1
- 14:15 The naive believe everything they hear, but the prudent watch where they are going. 1
- 14:20 The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have plenty of friends. 1
- 14:26 Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and their children will have a refuge. 1
- 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a spring of life, steering people away from the traps of death. 1
- 14:32 The wicked are brought down by their own evil, but the righteous have a refuge even in death. 1
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Where it is preached
- Practical Religion ·
Riches and Poverty cites Prov. xiv. 20
…for saying, "Money answereth all things." "The rich hath many friends." (Eccles. x. 19; Prov. xiv. 20.) But who that reads the story through can fail to see that in the highest and best sense…
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Fifth Stage cites Prov. 14:10
…The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy. Prov. 14:10. To be here is a fearful thing. Mr. Great-Heart: This is like doing business in great…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Joy cites Prov 14:10
…of a Christian, but they see not his joy. ‘A stranger intermeddleth not with his joy.’ Prov 14:10. His joy is hidden manna, hid from the eye of the world; he has still music which others…
- How to Bring Men to Christ ·
Dealing with Those Who Entertain False Hopes cites Prov. xiv. 12
…how untrustworthy our feelings are and what the ground of assurance is, viz: God’s word. Prov. xiv. 12 can also be used as showing that “there is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the…
- How to Bring Men to Christ ·
Dealing with the Willful and the Deluded cites Prov. xiv. 12
…say “I want to have my own way.” Is. lv. 8‒9, will show how much better God’s way is, and Prov. xiv. 12, shows the consequences of having our own way. Finally there are those who say “I neither…
- The Key Teachings of George Whitefield ·
The Method of Grace cites PROVERBS 14:12
…There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. PROVERBS 14:12 Then, like a surgeon, he lays out what must happen before a sinner can speak peace to his…
- The Key Teachings of John Bunyan ·
Mr Worldly Wiseman and the Hill cites PROVERBS 14:12
…There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. PROVERBS 14:12 The hill that hangs over the road Christian, in his weariness, is persuaded. He turns out…
- The Key Teachings of Jeanne Guyon ·
The Heart and the Head cites PROVERBS 14:12
…There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. PROVERBS 14:12 Second, God guides first through His Word, and the Word must be understood with the mind.…
- Practical Religion ·
Happiness cites Prov. xiv. 13
…And the eternal Word of God teaches us that "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful." (Prov. xiv. 13.) Tell me not merely of smiling and laughing faces: I want to hear of something more than…
- How to Bring Men to Christ ·
Dealing with Those Who Lack Assurance and with Backsliders cites Prov. xiv. 14
…they have not found it “an evil thing and bitter” having forsaken the Lord their God. Prov. xiv. 14; 1 Kings xi. 9, and Luke xv. 13‒17, can often times be used with effect with an…
- Practical Religion ·
Prayer cites Prov. xiv. 14
…man is solemn and weighty,—"The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways." (Prov. xiv. 14.) Now, what is the cause of most backsliding? I believe, as a general rule, one of the…
- The Key Teachings of A. W. Tozer ·
The Deeper Life cites PROVERBS 14:14
…heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. PROVERBS 14:14 He traced backsliding to two roots. The first is the fickleness of the human heart, which…
- Lectures on Revivals of Religion ·
Lecture XXI. Backslider in Heart cites Prov. xiv. 14
…THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART. Text.—The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.—Prov. xiv. 14. I CANNOT conclude this course of lectures, without warning converts against backsliding.…
- Daughters of the King – 30 Days with God for Girls – Book 3 ·
Day 17 — Don’t Believe Everything cites Proverbs 14:15
“The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.” — Proverbs 14:15 (BSB) The internet is full of information. Some of it is true, helpful and good. But a…
- Growing in Wisdom ·
The Power of Diligence and Discipline cites Proverbs 14:23
…The Bible says, "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty." (Proverbs 14:23) Avoid complaining or comparing yourself to others who have more free time. Use your…
- Old Paths ·
Our Hope! cites Prov. xiv. 23
…“He that boasteth himself of a false gift, is like clouds and wind without rain.” (Prov. xiv. 23; xxv. 14.) (a) There are some in the present day who flatter themselves they have a good…
- Knots Untied ·
Evangelical Religion cites Prov. xiv. 23
…is mere unmeaning verbiage. It is “the talk of the lips, which tendeth only to penury.” (Prov. xiv. 23.) (3) I go on to say that Evangelical Religion does not undervalue the Christian…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 14 — The Beginning of Justification cites Prov. 14:26
…Accordingly, when Solomon says, “In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence,” (Prov. 14:26), and when the saints sometimes beseech the Lord to hear them, because they walked before…
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
To the Reader cites Prov. 14:27
…John 8:12; by the help of which, as I perceive, he has escaped the snares of death. Prov. 14:27. Then they all wept again, and cried out, Oh, woe worth the day! The next night…
- Christ the Healer ·
How to Appropriate the Redemptive and Covenant Blessing of Bodily Healing cites Prov. 14:30
…16:30). “A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.” (Prov. 14:30.) An unsound heart is worse than an unsound stomach—a diseased soul worse than a diseased…
- Daughters of the King – 30 Days with God for Girls – Book 1 ·
Day 9 — Filters and Feeds cites Proverbs 14:30
“A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” — Proverbs 14:30 (BSB) Have you ever scrolled through pictures and videos and come away feeling worse…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Prov 14: 30
…the heart, dries up the blood, rots the bones. Envy is ‘the rottenness of the bones.’ Prov 14: 30. It is to the body what the moth is to the cloth, that eats it and makes its beauty…
- Real Questions – Book 3 ·
What If I Can’t Stop Comparing Myself to Others? cites Proverbs 14:30
…call it a small thing: “A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones” (Proverbs 14:30). Envy eats you from the inside. It doesn’t hurt the person you envy at all. It also…
- Faithful With Little ·
Lending to the Lord cites Proverbs 14:31
…oppresses the poor insults the One who made them, but kindness to the needy honors Him” (Proverbs 14:31). Jesus and the poor Jesus began His ministry by announcing that He had come “to bring…
- Real Questions – Book 2 ·
If God Is Good, Why Is the World So Full of Evil? cites Proverbs 14:31
…injustice. God takes it personally. “Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker” (Proverbs 14:31). What about earthquakes and diseases, which nobody chooses? The Bible says that when…
- The Key Teachings of John Wesley ·
The Poor and the Slave cites PROVERBS 14:31
…the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. PROVERBS 14:31 Who cares for the Africans Wesley’s concern for the enslaved went back to his time in the…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites Prov. 14:31
…showeth mercy, and giveth;” and ver. 26, “He is ever merciful, and lendeth.” And Prov. 14:31, “He that honoreth the Lord, hath mercy on the poor.” And Col. 3:12, “Put ye on, as the…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites Prov. 14:31
…showeth favor, and lendeth.” Ver. 9, “He hath dispersed abroad, and given to the poor.” Prov. 14:31, “He that honoreth God, hath mercy on the poor.” Prov. 21:26, “The righteous giveth, and…
- A Body of Divinity ·
A Believer's Privilege at Death cites Prov 14:32
…Rom 12:12. A Christian’s hope is not in this life, but he ‘hath hope in his death.’ Prov 14:32. The best of a saint’s comfort begins when his life ends; but the wicked have all their…