Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The Righteous
Proverbs is very detailed in its description of the righteous person, the characteristics, attitudes, communications and especially the beneficial results of righteous behaviors. Here they are:
Characteristics: Seeks knowledge and understanding, partners with people, is blameless and prudent, works his land, ploughs in season, harvests in summer, is bold, honors the Lord, is truthful discerning, generous, patient, gracious, waits and watches, and overall diligent, restraint with riches, buys truth but doesn’t sell it.
Attitudes: Trusts in the Lord, is awake and grateful, fears the Lord, is faithful, humble, delights in wisdom, finds refuge, hopes, is kind and just to the poor, commits to the Lord.
Communications: Listens to rebuke, speaks softly, spreads knowledge, speaks wise and kind words, nourishes, guards their lips, is instructive, confesses and renounces sins.
Results: Joy, stability, safety, honor, favor, rejoicing, wealth, health, understanding, long life, rewarded, rises again, escapes trouble. ¶ 7:17 PM 0 Comments
Characteristics: Seeks knowledge and understanding, partners with people, is blameless and prudent, works his land, ploughs in season, harvests in summer, is bold, honors the Lord, is truthful discerning, generous, patient, gracious, waits and watches, and overall diligent, restraint with riches, buys truth but doesn’t sell it.
Attitudes: Trusts in the Lord, is awake and grateful, fears the Lord, is faithful, humble, delights in wisdom, finds refuge, hopes, is kind and just to the poor, commits to the Lord.
Communications: Listens to rebuke, speaks softly, spreads knowledge, speaks wise and kind words, nourishes, guards their lips, is instructive, confesses and renounces sins.
Results: Joy, stability, safety, honor, favor, rejoicing, wealth, health, understanding, long life, rewarded, rises again, escapes trouble. ¶ 7:17 PM 0 Comments
The Righteous
The Righteous
Proverbs is very detailed in its description of the righteous person, the characteristics, attitudes, communications and especially the beneficial results of righteous behaviors. Here they are:
Characteristics: Seeks knowledge and understanding, partners with people, is blameless and prudent, works his land, ploughs in season, harvests in summer, is bold, honors the Lord, is truthful discerning, generous, patient, gracious, waits and watches, and overall diligent, restraint with riches, buys truth but doesn’t sell it.
Attitudes: Trusts in the Lord, is awake and grateful, fears the Lord, is faithful, humble, delights in wisdom, finds refuge, hopes, is kind and just to the poor, commits to the Lord.
Communications: Listens to rebuke, speaks softly, spreads knowledge, speaks wise and kind words, nourishes, guards their lips, is instructive, confesses and renounces sins.
Results: Joy, stability, safety, honor, favor, rejoicing, wealth, health, understanding, long life, rewarded, rises again, escapes trouble. ¶ 7:17 PM 0 Comments
Proverbs is very detailed in its description of the righteous person, the characteristics, attitudes, communications and especially the beneficial results of righteous behaviors. Here they are:
Characteristics: Seeks knowledge and understanding, partners with people, is blameless and prudent, works his land, ploughs in season, harvests in summer, is bold, honors the Lord, is truthful discerning, generous, patient, gracious, waits and watches, and overall diligent, restraint with riches, buys truth but doesn’t sell it.
Attitudes: Trusts in the Lord, is awake and grateful, fears the Lord, is faithful, humble, delights in wisdom, finds refuge, hopes, is kind and just to the poor, commits to the Lord.
Communications: Listens to rebuke, speaks softly, spreads knowledge, speaks wise and kind words, nourishes, guards their lips, is instructive, confesses and renounces sins.
Results: Joy, stability, safety, honor, favor, rejoicing, wealth, health, understanding, long life, rewarded, rises again, escapes trouble. ¶ 7:17 PM 0 Comments
Monday, May 14, 2007
Slothful People
The next most considered person in Proverbs are the slothful, or the sluggard. The description of their characteristics and results are as follows:
Attitudes: Lies around, sleeps long, sleeps during harvest, lack of progress
Qualities: careless, unsatisfied cravings, slack in work
Communications: irritating
Results: poverty, scarcity, lack of progress, enslavement, destructive, discraces parents. ¶ 7:18 PM 0 Comments
Attitudes: Lies around, sleeps long, sleeps during harvest, lack of progress
Qualities: careless, unsatisfied cravings, slack in work
Communications: irritating
Results: poverty, scarcity, lack of progress, enslavement, destructive, discraces parents. ¶ 7:18 PM 0 Comments
