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2. Things of true value 10:15-32 
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10:15 Even though wealth is not most important, it still can result in security or poverty, and therefore people should not despise it.

10:19 Transgressing means breaking across. When we speak too much, we break across into an area where we should not go. This can happen in private as well as public speech. Some people transgress when they engage in inappropriate transparency. We should only share our lives with people to the degree that they have committed themselves to us.

10:30 The righteous person will never be permanently or ultimately shaken, though he or she may experience hardships. However the wicked will not experience God's blessing ultimately. Dwelling in the land of promise was the wandering Israelite's hope of eventual divine blessing. The alternative was exile from the land.

10:32 Speech indicates character. "Acceptable"is better "fitting"(NIV), and "perverted"means "unfitting."



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