Proverbs

 Proverbs 1

1 The use of the proverbs.

7 An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word;

10 to avoid the enticings of sinners.

20 Wisdom complains of her contempt.

24 She threatens her contemners.

 Proverbs 2

1 Wisdom promises godliness to her children;

10 and safety from evil company;

20 and direction in good ways.

 Proverbs 3

1 Sundry exhortations.

13 The gain of wisdom.

27 Exhortation to beneficence, etc.

33 The different state of the wicked and upright.

 Proverbs 4

1 Solomon persuades to wisdom,

14 and to shun wickedness.

20 He exhorts to sanctification.

 Proverbs 5

1 Solomon exhorts to wisdom.

3 He shews the mischief of whoredom and riot.

15 He exhorts to contentedness, liberality, and chastity.

22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins.

 Proverbs 6

1 Against suretyship;

6 idleness;

12 and mischievousness.

16 Seven things hateful to God.

20 The blessings of obedience.

25 The mischiefs of whoredom.

 Proverbs 7

1 Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom.

6 In an example of his own experience, he shews,

10 the cunning of a harlot;

22 and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton.

24 He dehorteth from such wickedness.

 Proverbs 8

1 The fame,

6 and evidence of wisdom.

10 The excellency,

12 the nature,

15 the power,

18 the riches,

22 and the eternity of wisdom.

32 Wisdom is to be desired for the blessedness it brings.

 Proverbs 9

1 The discipline,

4 and doctrine of wisdom.

13 The custom,

16 and error of folly.

 Proverbs 10

1 From this chapter to the five and twentieth are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.

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 Proverbs 25

1 Observations about kings,

8 and about avoiding causes of quarrels, and sundry causes thereof.

 Proverbs 26

1 Observations about fools;

13 about sluggards;

17 and about contentious busy-bodies.

 Proverbs 27

1 Observations of self love;

5 of true love;

11 of care to avoid offenses;

23 and of the household care.

 Proverbs 28

1 General observations of impiety and religious integrity.

 Proverbs 29

1 Observations of public government,

15 and of private.

22 Of anger, pride, thievery, cowardice, and corruption.

 Proverbs 30

1 Agur's confession of his faith.

7 The two points of his prayer.

10 The meanest are not to be wronged.

11 Four wicked generations.

15 Four things insatiable.

17 Parents are not to be despised.

18 Four things hard to be known.

21 Four things intolerable.

24 Four things exceeding wise.

29 Four things stately.

32 Wrath is to be prevented.

 Proverbs 31

1 Lemuel's lesson of chastity and temperance.

6 The afflicted are to be comforted and defended.

10 The praise and properties of a good wife.