Journey Through God's Word

Take a journey designed to deepen your understanding of Scripture and strengthen your relationship with God. This plan takes you through key chapters and verses, covering foundational stories of creation, the covenants, the life and ministry of Jesus, the power of faith, the fruits of the Spirit, and more. Each day, you will immerse yourself in Scripture, allowing the timeless truths and teachings to illuminate your path.

Today, we are reading Proverbs 4:1-27; Proverbs 9:1-18; Proverbs 20:1-30.

Proverbs 4

1	Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2	For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
3	For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4	He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
5	Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6	Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
7	Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
8	Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
9	She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
10	Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
11	I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
12	When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13	Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
14	Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15	Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16	For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17	For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18	But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19	The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
20	My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21	Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22	For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23	Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24	Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
25	Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26	Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
27	Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Proverbs 9

1	Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2	She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
3	She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
4	Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
5	Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
6	Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
7	He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
8	Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9	Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
10	The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
11	For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
12	If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
13	A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
14	For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
15	To call passengers who go right on their ways:
16	Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17	Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18	But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 20

1	Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2	The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
3	It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
4	The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
5	Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
6	Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7	The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
8	A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9	Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10	Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
11	Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12	The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
13	Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14	It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
15	There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
16	Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
17	Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
18	Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
19	He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
20	Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
21	An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22	Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
23	Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
24	Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
25	It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
26	A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
27	The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
28	Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
29	The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
30	The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

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