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Bible study · Proverbs 15:1-33

Proverbs 15: A gentle answer

Read Proverbs 15:1-33 before you meet.

In a few lines

The chapter's last line gathers the book's first: "The fear of the LORD teaches wisdom" (15:33), where teaches is musar, the instruction of 1:7. And 15:9 sets the LORD's love not on the righteous but on "him who follows after righteousness" (15:9), someone pursuing it.

The verse to carry

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

Proverbs 15:1

To talk about

  1. 1. "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (15:1). Think of a time a gentle answer, yours or someone else's, changed the way a conversation went. What made it possible?

  2. 2. "The heart of the righteous weighs answers" (15:28). What helps you weigh your words before you answer?

  3. 3. "Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred" (15:17). What do you think makes a table a place where love is?

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