Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, {A proud...: Heb. Haughty eyes}
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness {that} speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Bind them continually upon thine heart, {and} tie them about thy neck.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
{Men} do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
For jealousy {is} the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: {in the evening: Heb. in the evening of days}