book_id: PRO

book: Proverbs

reference: Proverbs 20:1

text: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.


reference: Proverbs 20:2

text: The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.


reference: Proverbs 20:3

text: It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.


reference: Proverbs 20:4

text: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.


reference: Proverbs 20:5

text: Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.


reference: Proverbs 20:6

text: Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?


reference: Proverbs 20:7

text: The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.


reference: Proverbs 20:8

text: A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.


reference: Proverbs 20:9

text: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?


reference: Proverbs 20:10

text: Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.


reference: Proverbs 20:11

text: Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.


reference: Proverbs 20:12

text: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.


reference: Proverbs 20:13

text: Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.


reference: Proverbs 20:14

text: It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.


reference: Proverbs 20:15

text: There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.


reference: Proverbs 20:16

text: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.


reference: Proverbs 20:17

text: Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.


reference: Proverbs 20:18

text: Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.


reference: Proverbs 20:19

text: He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.


reference: Proverbs 20:20

text: Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.


reference: Proverbs 20:21

text: An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.


reference: Proverbs 20:22

text: Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.


reference: Proverbs 20:23

text: Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.


reference: Proverbs 20:24

text: Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?


reference: Proverbs 20:25

text: It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.


reference: Proverbs 20:26

text: A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.


reference: Proverbs 20:27

text: The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.


reference: Proverbs 20:28

text: Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.


reference: Proverbs 20:29

text: The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.


reference: Proverbs 20:30

text: The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.