Media Summary: Both vengeance and salvation belong to the Lord. We are much better off doing our work and letting God do His work. Among the things God really hates is dishonesty in business. Those who get rich quick rarely stay rich long.
Proverbs Practicals 102 Proverbs 20 - Detailed Analysis & Overview
Both vengeance and salvation belong to the Lord. We are much better off doing our work and letting God do His work. Among the things God really hates is dishonesty in business. Those who get rich quick rarely stay rich long. Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments. Ultimately, lies always deceive the liar. The authority that uses its power based on knowledge will have the greatest effect in limiting evil.
Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement. Character becomes action, and action becomes reputation. There are things about our path and our future that we can't possibly know. Perhaps we should rather focus on what we can know. Do we think the one who made the eye will be blind to what we do and what happens to us? There are two subtly linked patterns of speech that will both end up causing trouble. Stay away from people who practice either, ... When the wealthiest man in the world describes something as a jewel more valuable than gold or a multitude of rubies, we should ...
There are some people who cannot be trusted to pay their debts and will eventually meet disaster; here are two of them.
