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Proverbs 16:1-7
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People make plans in their hearts. But the LORD controls what they say.
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Everything a man does might seem right to him. But the LORD knows what that man is thinking.
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Commit to the LORD everything you do. Then your plans will succeed.
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The LORD works everything out for his own purposes. Even those who do wrong were made for a day of trouble.
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The LORD hates all those who have proud hearts. You can be sure that they will be punished.
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Through love and truth sin is paid for. People avoid evil when they have respect for the Lord.
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When the way you live pleases the Lord, he makes even your enemies live at peace with you.
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Proverbs 16:1-7 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS 6
This chapter gives an account of the building of the temple, for which preparations were before made and begins with the time of its building, 1Ki 6:1; gives the dimensions of it and the porch before it, 1Ki 6:2,3; observes the windows in it and chambers about it, 1Ki 6:4-10; and while it was building, Solomon had a word from the Lord relative to it, 1Ki 6:11-14; and then the account goes on concerning the walls of the house, and the flooring of it, 1Ki 6:15-18; and the oracle in it, and the cherubim in that, 1Ki 6:19-30; and the doors into it, and the carved work of them, 1Ki 6:31-36; and the chapter is concluded with observing the time when it was begun and finished 1Ki 6:37,38.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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