The School of Wisdom: Recent Episodes
The Bible Bistro
The School of Wisdom meets weekly in the Bible Bistro and studies the book of Proverbs chapter by chapter.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.