Proverbs 8
Treated in 27 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 8:30 I was right beside him, a master worker, and I was his delight day after day, always at play in his presence, 4
- 8:31 playing over the whole world he had made, and delighting in the human race. 4
- 8:15 Through me kings rule, and rulers make just laws. 3
- 8:22 The LORD brought me into being as the first of his ways, before his works of long ago. 3
- 8:13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil. Pride, arrogance, evil conduct and twisted talk are what I hate. 2
- 8:17 Those who love me I love in return, and those who search hard for me will find me. 2
- 8:23 Long ages ago I was set in place, at the very first, before the earth began. 2
- 8:1 Listen! Is that not Wisdom calling, Understanding raising her voice? 1
- 8:4 "To you, all people, I am calling; my voice goes out to everyone on earth. 1
- 8:9 They are all plain to anyone with understanding, and right to those who have found knowledge. 1
- 8:12 I, Wisdom, share my home with Prudence, and I find knowledge and good planning. 1
- 8:18 Riches and honor are mine to give, lasting wealth and righteousness. 1
- 8:21 giving those who love me real wealth as their inheritance and filling their storehouses. 1
- 8:29 when he gave the sea its boundary so that the waters would not go beyond his command, when he laid out the foundations of the earth, 1
- 8:33 Listen to correction and become wise; do not brush it aside. 1
- 8:36 But whoever fails to find me does violence to their own life; all who hate me are in love with death." 1
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Where it is preached
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Prov. 8:13
…Verse 6, “Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.” Prov. 8:13, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.” So the Scripture never uses such emphatical…
- Communion with God ·
Inferences on communion with the Father in love cites Prov. viii. 30
…his Son, also, his eternal Wisdom, to rejoice and delight himself in from all eternity, Prov. viii. 30. This might take up and satiate the whole delight of the Father; but he will love his…
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ·
The happiness of a life wholly devoted to God farther proved, from the vanity, the sensuality, and the ridiculous poor enjoyments, which they are forced to take up with who live according to their own humours. This represented in various characters cites Prov. viii. 1
…that we see and hear. This is that wisdom that "crieth and putteth forth her voice" [Prov. viii. 1] in the streets, that standeth at all our doors, that appealeth to all our senses…
- Old Paths ·
Forgiveness cites Prov. viii. 4
…to Him, and be pardoned. “Unto you, 0 men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.” (Prov. viii. 4.) “Ho! every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.” (Isaiah lv. 1.) “If any man…
- Old Paths ·
The Holy Ghost cites Prov. viii. 9
…unmistakable, “plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.” (Prov. viii. 9.) (1) Where the Holy Ghost is, there will always be deep conviction of sin, and true…
- The Bruised Reed ·
Tenderness required in ministers toward young beginners cites Prov. viii. 12
…ought to desire to be led withal in all things. That wisdom which dwelleth with prudence, Prov. viii. 12, will guide us in these particulars, without which virtue is not virtue, truth not truth…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites Prov. 8:13
…religion. It is spoken of as that by which true religion may be known and distinguished; Prov. 8:13, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.” And accordingly the saints are called upon to…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Power of God cites Prov 8:15
…be are ordained of God.’ Rom 13:1. Kings hold their crowns of him. ‘By me kings reign.’ Prov 8:15. II. As God has authority, so he has infinite power. What is authority without power? ‘He…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Christ's Kingly Office cites Prov 8:15
…of the kings of the earth.’ Rev 1:5. He must needs be so, for ‘by him kings reign.’ Prov 8:15. They hold their crowns by immediate tenure from this great King. Christ infinitely…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 20 — Of Civil Government cites Prov. 8:15
…decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth” (Prov. 8:15, 16). For it is just as if it had been said, that it is not owing to human perverseness…
- All Things for Good ·
An exhortation to love God cites Prov. viii. 17
…us; but if we love God, He will not return hatred for love. “I love them that love me” (Prov. viii. 17). God may chastise, but He cannot hate. Every believer is part of Christ, and God can as…
- The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith ·
The Month of August cites Prov. 8:17
…SEEK TRUE WISDOM "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shalt find me" Prov. 8:17 Wisdom loves her lovers, and seeks her seekers. He is already wise who seeks to be wise…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Perseverance cites Prov 8:18
…is called substance, for its solidity, Prov 8:21; and durable riches, for its permanence. Prov 8:18. It lasts as long as the soul, as heaven lasts. Grace is not like a lease which soon…
- Communion with God ·
Of communion with Christ in a conjugal relation, in its consequential affections cites Prov. viii. 21
…affections — His delight in his saints first insisted on, Isa. lxii. 5; Cant. iii. 11; Prov. viii. 21 — Instance of Christ’s delight in believers — He reveals his whole heart to them, John…
- Communion with God ·
How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God cites Prov. viii. 22–30
…Father and Son. And the Son rejoices from eternity in the thought of this undertaking, Prov. viii. 22–30. The command given him to this purpose, the promises made to him thereon, the assistance…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 13 — The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in Scripture, from the Foundation of the World cites Prov. 8:22
…by God, and presiding at the creation of the world, and all other divine operations (Prov. 8:22). For it were trifling and foolish to imagine any temporary command at a time when God…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 14 — How Two Natures Constitute the Person of the Mediator cites Prov. 8:22
…he was begotten of God. Thus, the eternal generation of Wisdom, celebrated by Solomon (Prov. 8:22, seq). is destroyed, and no kind of Godhead exists in the Mediator: or a phantom is…
- Holiness ·
Christ Is All cites Prov. viii. 23
…set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.” (John xvii. 5, 24; Prov. viii. 23.) Even then He was the Saviour “foreordained before the foundation of the world” (1 Peter…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Trinity cites Prov 8:23
…with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, was I brought forth.’ Prov 8:23-25. This Scripture declares the eternal generation of the Son of God. This second person…
- Communion with God ·
Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites Prov. viii. 30
…his eternal Son, — as he was the delight of his soul before the foundation of the world, Prov. viii. 30, — but also as our mediator, and the means of conveying his love to us, Matt. iii. 17…
- Portraits of Courage – Praying Hyde ·
The Garment of Praise cites Proverbs 8:30
…divine Wisdom at the creation: “I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him” (Proverbs 8:30, ASV). God, he said, had been teaching Hyde and him that he is “the God of Isaac,” a name…
- Communion with God ·
Of the fellowship which the saints have with Jesus Christ the Son of God cites Prov. viii. 31
…7; — a garden for delight; he rejoices in them; “his delights are with the sons of men,” Prov. viii. 31; and he “rejoices over them,” Zeph. iii. 17; — and a garden for fruit, yea, pleasant…
- Communion with God ·
Of the way the saints hold communion with Christ as to personal grace cites Prov. viii. 31
…sinners into this relation with himself. He rejoiced in the thoughts of it from eternity, Prov. viii. 31; and always expresseth the greatest willingness to undergo the hard task required…
- Till He Come ·
Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Prov. viii. 31
…being, and from the beginning could He say, “My delights were with the sons of men.” (Prov. viii. 31.) Having covenanted to be the Surety of the elect, and having determined to fulfil every…
- A Call to the Unconverted ·
Sermon IV cites Prov. viii. 33
…the wilful wronging of your own souls! and that you better understood these words of God, Prov. viii. 33, 34, 35, 36. “Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not: Blessed is the man that…
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Fifth Stage cites Prov. 8:36
…have found pearls here, Matt. 13:46, and have in this place found the words of life. Prov. 8:36. Did I say our Lord had here in former days his country-house, and that he loved here to…
- Knots Untied ·
The Priest cites Prov. viii. 29-31
…in the habitable part of the earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.” (Prov. viii. 29-31.) Are we not taught everywhere in Scripture that for 4000 years He was trusted for…