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Read Proverbs 31 Featured Verse: Proverbs 31:10 “A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.” Most red-blooded American men want a trophy wife. And every man deserves one! Oh, not the kind you may be conjuring up in your mind right now—the kind [...]
Read Proverbs 30 Featured Verse: Proverbs 30:8-9, KJV “Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my [...]
Read Proverbs 29 Featured Verse: Proverbs 29:18, KJV “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” What is your vision? By that I mean, do you know to what great work God has called you, how he has shaped you with [...]
Read Proverbs 28 Featured Verse: Proverbs 28:9, MESSAGE “God has no use for the prayers of the people who won’t listen to him.” I am partly disturbed, partly humored by the growing number of people in our culture who don’t seem to think God has any moral standards to which [...]
Read Proverbs 27 Featured Verse: Proverbs 27:5-6 “Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.” I’m amazed when I read the Bible—especially the book of Proverbs—how relevant and practical it really is. People who criticize it as being boring [...]
Read Proverbs 26 Featured Verse: Proverbs 26:13-15 (MSG) Loafers say, “It’s dangerous out there! Tigers are prowling the streets!” and then pull the covers back over their heads. Just as a door turns on its hinges, so a lazybones turns back over in bed. A shiftless sluggard puts his fork [...]
Read Proverbs 25 Featured Verse: Proverbs 25:21-22 “If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.” Our normal response to this verse is [...]
Ray Noah
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