Search The Scriptures —Study 5 — Proverbs 8

Study 5 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Proverbs 8

1.      Contrast the description of wisdom with that of the woman in 7:5-27. How do they differ in speech, in conduct, in what they offer, and in the goal to which they lead their followers?

2.      What is said of wisdom in verses 22-31 concerning (a) its existence from the beginning; (b) its part in creation; (c) its communion with God; (d) its interest in man? Consider how in all these respects there is here a foreshadowing of Christ. Cf., e.g.’ (a) Jn. 17:5; (b) Jn. 1:1-3; Col. 1:15-17; (c) Mt. 11:27; (d) Heb. 2:17, 18.

3.      What similar but greater gifts than those which wisdom offers in 8:32-36 are offered in Christ? Cf., e.g., Mt. 11:29; Lk. 11:28; Jn. 14:21; 17:2, 3:3:36.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 4 — Proverbs 6 and 7

Study 4 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Proverbs 6 and 7

1.      Verses 1-5 give warning against foolish financial commitments and pledges.  What other warnings are given in these chapters?

2.      In what forms do the sins here spoken of manifest themselves at the present day?

3.      Test your life in the light of 6:16-19.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 3 — Proverbs 4 and 5

Study 3 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Proverbs 4 and 5

1.      What are the main lessons that the speaker seeks in these chapters to impress upon us?  What heed have I given, and am I giving, so these most urgent counsels?

2.      4:23-27 provide an admirable guide to successful living. Heart, lips, eyes, feet:  what directions are given concerning each? Note how much is implied for the Christian by verse 18.

3.      What are the results, at various levels, of neglecting this way of wisdom? See 4:19;  5:9-14; 5:21-23.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 2 — Proverbs 2 and 3

Study 2 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Proverbs 2 and 3

1.      What directions are given in these chapters for the attaining of wisdom? Make a list of them as a guide to your own life.

2.      What benefits does wisdom brings us, and from what evils does it preserve us? How far have I proved this in my own experience?

3.      ‘My son’: what application does the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews give to these words? Cf. Heb. 12:5-10.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 1 — Proverbs 1

Study 1 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Proverbs 1

1.      From the purpose of the book, as expressed in verses 1-6, what personal profit may we expect, to gain from studying it? How, according to verse 7, can we (a) begin right, or (b) show our folly? (See Note under Study 17.

2.      List some of the attractions in the enticing talk of verses 11-14. What positive attitudes will forearm me against them?

3.      What is the essence of the outlook deplored in verses 20-32? And of the promise given in 33?

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Search The Scriptures —Study 0 — Introduction to Proverbs

Study 0 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Introduction

Proverbs 1:7 provides the key to the book and to the whole of the Wisdom Literature (Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes). It all starts from the creed of one God—Jehovah, or the Lord—and wisdom is to know and do His will. The term ‘proverb’ has the double meaning of a short parable and a pithy saying.

The proverbs are all intensely practical, covering the human race and the whole of its activity, aiming at giving ‘knowledge and discretion’, or the building up of the ‘perfect man’ by fixing truth in the memory.  As expressing eternal spiritual principles many of them can receive their full meaning only when applied to the believer in Christ. 

Search The Scriptures —Study 7 — Galatians 5:25-6:18

Study 7 From The Book of Galatians Is: Galatians 5:25-6:18

***This is the last study of the book of Galatians. Tomorrow we will start the book of ‘PROVERBS’. ***

1.      5:25-6:10. What is the effect of ‘walking by the Spirit’ in the realm of social relationships? Make a list of what you find, and test your own relation to fellow-Christians by it.

2.      What, according to 6:11-16, is the core of Christianity? What must be given up in order to embrace it?

3.      Gather together from the Epistle as a whole the teaching given about (a) the cross of Christ, and (b) the Holy Spirit.

Note. 6:2. ‘The law of Christ’: cf. Jn. 13:34; 1Jn. 4:21.

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