Proverbs 20
Treated in 28 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 20:1 Wine makes people mock and strong drink makes them rowdy; no one who reels under them is wise. 7
- 20:7 The righteous live with integrity; how blessed are their children after them! 6
- 20:30 Blows that wound scour away evil, and beatings cleanse the inner self. 2
- 20:2 A king's fury is like a lion's roar; anyone who angers him puts their own life at risk. 1
- 20:4 The lazy will not plow in the cold season; at harvest they look for a crop and find nothing. 1
- 20:5 A person's real intentions lie deep, like water in a well, but someone with understanding can bring them up. 1
- 20:8 A king seated on his judgment throne sifts out every evil with a look. 1
- 20:9 Who can say, "My heart is pure; I am cleansed of my sin"? 1
- 20:12 The ear that hears and the eye that sees: the LORD is the maker of both. 1
- 20:21 An inheritance grabbed too early will not be blessed in the end. 1
- 20:22 Do not say, "I will pay back this wrong!" Wait for the LORD, and he will rescue you. 1
- 20:24 The LORD directs each person's steps, so how can anyone make sense of where they are going? 1
- 20:25 It is a trap to declare something holy without thinking and to have second thoughts only after making the vow. 1
- 20:27 The human spirit is the lamp of the LORD, shining into every hidden part of a person. 1
- 20:28 Loyal love and faithfulness keep a king safe; by loyal love he makes his throne secure. 1
- 20:29 Young men take pride in their strength; the old wear gray hair as their honor. 1
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Where it is preached
- Portraits of Courage – Mary Slessor ·
A Wild Lassie cites Proverbs 20:1
…Slessor children learned for themselves that “Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler” (Proverbs 20:1, ASV). Robert Slessor died in Dundee on 16 September 1870. It was Mary, aged twenty-one…
- Portraits of Courage – Mary Slessor ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Proverbs 20:1
…a heavenly Father when her earthly father failed. Scriptures to revisit Psalm 103:13-14; Proverbs 20:1; Acts 16:31. Reflection 1. Is there a prayer you have prayed for years without an answer?…
- The Key Teachings of Julia A. J. Foote ·
Love Not the World cites PROVERBS 20:1
…Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. PROVERBS 20:1 Like many in the holiness and temperance movements of her century, she treated total…
- Rise Up, Men of God ·
The Battle Within cites Proverbs 20:1
…5:18). "Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise" (Proverbs 20:1). "Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late…
- The Key Teachings of Amanda Berry Smith ·
A Temperance Woman cites PROVERBS 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. PROVERBS 20:1 Amanda Smith’s first husband was a man who could talk sensibly about religion when he was…
- The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth ·
Things by Their Right Names cites PROVERBS 20:1
…Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. PROVERBS 20:1 In How to Work for God with Success she put it more sharply still to the comfortable…
- The Key Teachings of F. B. Meyer ·
Why Sign the Pledge? cites PROVERBS 20:1
…Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. PROVERBS 20:1 He speaks too of how it creeps up on the moderate. You have no intention of becoming a…
- Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards ·
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God cites Prov. xx. 2
…and lives of their subjects wholly in their power, to be disposed of at their mere will. Prov. xx. 2, “The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth…
- Rise Up, Men of God ·
By the Sweat of Your Brow cites Proverbs 20:4
…"The sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing" (Proverbs 20:4). Brother, in our day, we must confront a spirit of idleness that sits on many young men.…
- Sons of the King – 30 Days with God for Guys – Book 3 ·
Day 5 — Deep Water cites Proverbs 20:5
…of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.” — Proverbs 20:5 (BSB) Imagine an old well, deep in the ground. Way down at the bottom is cool, fresh…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.2 The Second Commandment cites Prov 20: 7
…posterity. ‘The just man walketh in his integrity, his children are blessed after him.’ Prov 20: 7. A religious parent does not procure wrath, but helps to keep off wrath from his child…
- Growing in Wisdom ·
Integrity and Character cites Proverbs 20:7
…it. "The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them." — Proverbs 20:7 African Examples Florence Nankinga, a Ugandan teacher, once refused a parent's bribe to…
- Sons of the King – 30 Days with God for Guys – Book 2 ·
Day 1 — Walking with Integrity cites Proverbs 20:7
“The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.” — Proverbs 20:7 (BSB) What’s the difference between a real diamond and a fake one? From across the room…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 8 — Exposition of the Moral Law cites Prov. 20:7
…says, “The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him,” (Prov. 20:7); not only in consequence of a religious education (though this certainly is by no means…
- The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith ·
The Month of April cites Prov. 20:7
…CHILDREN "The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him" Prov. 20:7 Anxiety about our family is natural, but we shall be wise if we turn it into care about…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 17 — The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled cites Prov. 20:7
…at which some may still demur. Solomon says, “The just man walketh in his integrity,” (Prov. 20:7). Again, “In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no…
- Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards ·
A Strong Rod Broken and Withered cites Prov. xx. 8
…to evil doers. What I saw in him often put me in mind of that saying of the wise man, Prov. xx. 8, “The king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 13 — Two Things to Be Observed in Gratuitous Justification cites Prov. 20:9
…the words of Solomon, “Who can say I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?” (Prov. 20:9). Undoubtedly there is not one man who is not covered with infinite pollutions. Let the…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 4 — How God Works in the Hearts of Men cites Prov. 20:12
…of Solomon, “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them,” (Prov. 20:12). For they seem to me to refer not to their creation, but to peculiar grace in the use of…
- Faithful With Little ·
Passing It On cites Proverbs 20:21
…can harm a child: “An inheritance grabbed too early will not be blessed in the end” (Proverbs 20:21). Many wise Christian parents leave a good share of their estate to God’s work, as a…
- Sons of the King – 30 Days with God for Guys – Book 1 ·
Day 10 — Don’t Get Even cites Proverbs 20:22
“Do not say, ‘I will avenge this evil!’ Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.” — Proverbs 20:22 (BSB) Someone trips you in the hallway, and everybody laughs. A kid on the other team…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 16 — The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him cites Prov. 20:24
…again says, “Man’s goings are of the Lord: how can a man then understand his own way?” (Prov. 20:24). Will it now be said that man is moved by God according to the bent of his nature, but…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites Prov 20: 25
…set apart to holy uses. ‘It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy.’ Prov 20: 25. Such an one was Dionysius, who robbed the temple, and took away the silver vessels. (3)…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
VIII. Nothing can certainly be determined concerning the nature of the affections, by this, that comforts and joys seem to follow awakenings and convictions of conscience, in a certain order cites Prov. 20:27
…men into the consideration of their danger, and makes them to be affected therewith; Prov. 20:27; “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 20 — Of Civil Government cites Prov. 20:28
…best and surest counsellor of kings, and, as Solomon declares, “upholder of the throne” (Prov. 20:28). This, as was truly said by one of old, should be the primary endowment of princes. The…
- Sons of the King – 30 Days with God for Guys – Book 3 ·
Day 12 — The Glory of Young Men cites Proverbs 20:29
“The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.” — Proverbs 20:29 (BSB) Proverbs says, “The glory of young men is their strength.” God designed young men…
- Talks to the Farmer ·
The Sheep Before the Shearers cites Proverbs 20:30
…bitterness of sorrow is part of our correction. “By the wounds a heart is healed” (see Proverbs 20:30, ESV). Do not complain because your trial feels sharp and unusual. That would be like…
- The Saint and His Saviour ·
Faithful Wounds cites Prov. xx. 30
…Num. xxv 7. o Ex. xxxiii. 26, 27. p Arvine's Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes. q Ps. cxix. 59. r Prov. xx. 30. s Colton. t Isa. xxx. 33.