GET SMART - A STUDY IN PROVERBS
GET WISDOM THROUGH WARNINGS
Proverbs 4:10-15, 20-23 (NASB1995)
10 Hear, my son, and accept my sayings and the years of your life
will be many.
11 I have directed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in
upright paths.
12 When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; and if you run,
you will not stumble.
13 Take hold of instruction; do not let go. Guard her, for she is
your life.
14 Do not enter the path of the wicked and do not proceed in the
way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, do not pass by it; turn away from it and pass on.
20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my
sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst
of your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them and health to all their
body.
23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the
springs of life.
Proverbs 5:3-12 (NLT)
3 For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
4 But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood (poison),
as dangerous as a double-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
6 For she cares nothing about the path to life. She staggers down
a crooked trail and doesn’t realize it.
7 So now, my sons, listen to me.
Never stray from what I am about to say:
8 Stay away from her! Don’t go near the door of her house!
9 If you do, you will lose your honor
and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.
10 Strangers will consume your wealth,
and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
11 In the end you will groan in anguish
when disease consumes your body.
12 You will say, “How I hated discipline!
If only I had not ignored all the warnings!
1 Corinthians 6:18 (NLT)
18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
Proverbs 14:12-13 (NASB)
12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
13 Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, and the end of joy may be grief.
Proverbs 19:20-21 (NLT)
20 Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of
your life
21 You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.
Proverbs 23:29-35
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions?
Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
30 Those who linger long over wine, those who go to taste mixed wine.
31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;
32 At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things and your mind will utter perverse things.
34 And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.
35 “They struck me, but I did not become ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink.”
