Suosittuja jakeita Raamatun kirjasta Proverbs 13

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If you want to grow in wisdom, spend time with the wise. Walk with the wicked and you’ll eventually become just like them.

Guard your words and you’ll guard your life, but if you don’t control your tongue, it will ruin everything.

If you withhold correction and punishment from your children, you demonstrate a lack of true love. So prove your love and be prompt to punish them.

When hope’s dream seems to drag on and on, the delay can be depressing. But when at last your dream comes true, life’s sweetness will satisfy your soul.

Righteousness is like a shield of protection, guarding those who keep their integrity, but sin is the downfall of the wicked.

Wealth quickly gained is quickly wasted — easy come, easy go! But if you gradually gain wealth, you will watch it grow.

Wisdom opens your heart to receive wise counsel, but pride closes your ears to advice and gives birth only to quarrels and strife.

The benevolent man leaves an inheritance that endures to his children’s children, but the wealth of the wicked is treasured up for the righteous.

A wise son or daughter desires a father’s discipline, but the know-it-all never listens to correction.

Poverty and disgrace come to the one who refuses to hear criticism. But the one who is easy to correct is on the path of honor.