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Bible study · Proverbs 13:1-25

Proverbs 13: A wise son listens

Read Proverbs 13:1-25 before you meet.

In a few lines

The scoffer "doesn’t listen to rebuke" (13:1) and the poor "hear no threats" (13:8): in Hebrew the same three words. And "The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death" (13:14) comes back in the next chapter, of the fear of the LORD, with the same five Hebrew words (Proverbs 14:27).

The verse to carry

“One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”

Proverbs 13:20

To talk about

  1. 1. "One who walks with wise men grows wise" (13:20). Who has helped you grow wiser just by spending time with them, and what did you pick up from them?

  2. 2. "He who guards his mouth guards his soul" (13:3). When has holding back a word, or choosing it carefully, spared you or someone else trouble?

  3. 3. "Hope deferred makes the heart sick" (13:12). What helps you keep going while something you hope for is slow in coming?

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