Truth-Scrolling · Grace Study Bible

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The Righteous and the Wicked in Work, Speech, and Desire

Proverbs 10 begins Solomon’s short sayings with repeated contrasts between righteous and wicked, wise and foolish, diligent and slack, truthful and lying, generous and grasping. The chapter does not offer a mechanical formula for prosperity; it teaches that the Lord’s moral order reaches into labor, speech, wealth, family, and desire. Jesus saves those whose sin has corrupted these places and forms a people marked by His righteousness and life-giving words.

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Honest Scales and Open Hands Before the Lord

Proverbs 11 contrasts the upright and the wicked in commerce, speech, community, generosity, and death. The chapter begins with dishonest scales and ends with the righteous finding life, showing that integrity before God is never merely private. Jesus gives sinners a righteousness they do not possess and makes His people free to deal honestly and give generously.

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Loving Correction and Speaking What Gives Life

Proverbs 12 contrasts the teachable and the stubborn through correction, speech, work, honesty, and care for creatures. The chapter calls wisdom the love of discipline because truth can wound pride before it heals a life. Jesus receives foolish sinners, forgives their lies and negligence, and teaches them to live under His truthful, life-giving word.

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Guarded Words, Patient Hope, and the Way of Life

Proverbs 13 gathers warnings and promises around parental instruction, guarded speech, diligent work, honest wealth, hope, friendship, and discipline. Its image of hope deferred making the heart sick gives emotional weight to wisdom’s call for patient faithfulness. Jesus meets weary sinners in their disappointment, forgives their destructive choices, and leads them on the way of life.

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The Fear of the Lord in a House, a City, and a Nation

Proverbs 14 sets wise building against foolish tearing down, honest testimony against falsehood, compassion for the poor against contempt, and the fear of the Lord against self-deceived paths. The chapter insists that righteousness has public consequences for households, cities, and nations. Jesus saves people trapped on ways that seem right and creates a people who fear God and love their neighbors.

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A Gentle Answer Before the God Who Sees

Proverbs 15 joins a gentle answer, the Lord’s searching eyes, teachability, humble planning, and prayer into one portrait of wisdom. The chapter does not reduce peace to avoiding hard truth; it contrasts healing speech with harsh anger and humble correction with self-will. Jesus bears sinners’ rebellion, hears His people, and teaches them to walk humbly before the Father who sees every heart.

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Plans, the King, and the Lord Who Directs the Way

Proverbs 16 repeatedly places human plans, speech, judgment, travel, and royal power under the Lord who weighs motives and directs steps. The chapter commends diligent planning and just rule, yet overturns self-confidence: the heart may devise a way, but the Lord establishes its course. In Christ, sinners find forgiveness for proud self-rule and a wise King whose reign is righteous.

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Peace at the Table and the Friend Who Stays

Proverbs 17 contrasts a quiet home with a rich but hostile one, truth-loving speech with bribery and false testimony, and faithful friendship with the selfishness that abandons a neighbor. The Lord tests hearts and hears words. Jesus bears the shame of sinful people and makes them members of His household, teaching them to pursue peace, honest judgment, and steadfast love.

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The Name of the Lord and Words That Wound or Heal

Proverbs 18 exposes the isolating folly of self-will and traces the power of words through quarrels, testimony, counsel, wealth, poverty, and friendship. A person may hide behind a fortified city of riches, but the name of the Lord is the true strong tower. Jesus brings guilty and isolated sinners to the Father and teaches His people to use words in humility, truth, and love.

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The Poor, the Disciplined Child, and the Lord’s Purpose

Proverbs 19 joins integrity in poverty, patience with anger, compassion for the poor, parental discipline, honest testimony, and God’s sovereign purpose. The chapter sees how wealth can attract shallow friends and how folly can ruin a life before blaming the Lord. Jesus meets the poor and sinful with mercy, bears judgment for falsehood, and forms a people whose plans yield to God’s purpose.

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Honest Scales, Patient Kings, and the Search of the Heart

Proverbs 20 gathers warnings about wine, anger, sloth, dishonest scales, false testimony, revenge, and premature boasting beneath the Lord who searches the human spirit. The chapter calls for patient, truthful life in a world of hidden motives and contested claims. Jesus alone knows the heart without deception, bears the guilt of sinners, and makes His people wait for the Lord rather than retaliate.

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The King’s Heart, the Sacrifice God Desires, and the Way of Justice

Proverbs 21 places royal power, private desire, worship, work, speech, and conflict under the Lord who weighs the heart. It insists that righteousness and justice matter more to God than sacrifice offered by the wicked. Jesus fulfills the righteous obedience this chapter requires and, by His saving mercy, forms a people who seek justice rather than trusting religious appearance.

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