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Proverbs 19:17-27
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If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD — and he will repay you!
18
Discipline your children while there is hope. Otherwise you will ruin their lives.
19
Hot-tempered people must pay the penalty. If you rescue them once, you will have to do it again.
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Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life.
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You can make many plans, but the LORD ’s purpose will prevail.
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Loyalty makes a person attractive. It is better to be poor than dishonest.
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Fear of the LORD leads to life, bringing security and protection from harm.
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Lazy people take food in their hand but don’t even lift it to their mouth.
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If you punish a mocker, the simpleminded will learn a lesson; if you correct the wise, they will be all the wiser.
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Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.
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If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will turn your back on knowledge.
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Proverbs 19:17-27 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 8
This chapter gives an account of the introduction of the ark into the temple, 1Ki 8:1-9 of the glory of the Lord filling it, 1Ki 8:10,11 of a speech Solomon made to the people concerning the building of the temple, and how he came to be engaged in it, 1Ki 8:12-21, of a prayer of his he put up on this occasion, requesting, that what supplications soever were made at any time, or on any account, by Israelites or strangers, might be accepted by the Lord, 1Ki 8:22-53, and of his blessing the people of Israel at the close of it, with some useful exhortations, 1Ki 8:54-61, and of the great number of sacrifices offered up by him, and the feast he made for the people, upon which he dismissed them, 1Ki 8:62-66.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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