CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
TEXT Proverbs 15:1-11 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grevious word stirreth up anger. 2. The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright; But the mouth of fools poureth out folly....
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD - not only his "sacrifice," or wor...
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger....
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
KIND WORDS AND GLAD HEARTS Proverbs 15:1-17 _A soft answer; the tongue of the wise; a wholesome tongue; the lips of the wise; the prayer of the upright_ -these keywords touch one of the greatest depa...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
THE WAY OF THE WICKED [IS] AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD,.... The way his heart devises, which he chooses and delights in, in which he walks; nor will he leave it, nor can he be diverted from it, but b...
The way of the wicked [is] an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. Ver. 9. _The way of the wicked is abomination._] Not his sacrifices only, but his civili...
_The sacrifice of the wicked_ Or the religious services, yea, the best and most costly of them, one kind being put for all the rest; _is an abomination to the Lord_ Because not offered with a sincere...
V. 9. THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD, He loathes their entire conduct; BUT HE LOVETH HIM THAT FOLLOWETH AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, who makes it his business to search after, to pursue...
THE WAY; the conversation or course of life. This verse seems to contain a reason of the foregoing. God hates wicked men's religious performances, because they are accompanied with ungodly lives, and...
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WISE WORDS, REPROOF AND FIRM DISCIPLINE UPHOLD THE RIGHTEOUS, GIVING THEM SUITABLE REWARD, WHILST THE UNRIGHTEOUS REJECT REPROOF, AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES (PROVERBS 15:4). In this subsection there...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:1 This is a series of proverbs dealing primarily with speech, submission to instruction, and God’s providence. ⇐...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:8 The SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED is meaningless. By contrast, the PRAYER OF THE UPRIGHT, as a part of a life that PURSUES RIGHTEOUSNESS, is pleasing to
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:8_ PRAYING AND LIVING I. GOD LOVES RIGHTEOUS MEN WITH A SPECIAL LOVE. God has a love for all His human creatures—a love which springs out of His relationship to them a...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. If...
1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 2:22; Habakkuk 1:13; Hosea 6:3; Isaiah 26:7;