Proverbs

I started reading Proverbs a couple of weeks ago since I'd never read through it all. For some reason I read it backwards, from 31 to 1. Here are the ones that stood out to me.

3:3-4 "Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!...Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation."

3:27 "Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it's in your power to help them."

6:16-19 "There are six things the Lord hates - no, seven things he detests: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, a false witness who pours out lies; a person who sows discord in a family."

10:19 "Too much talk leads to sin. Be sensible and keep your mouth shut."

11: 13 "A gossip goes around telling secrets, but those hwo are trustworthy can keep a confidence."

11:24 "Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything.:

13: 20 "Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble."

16:9 "We can make our plans but the Lord determines our steps."

19:18 "Discipline your children while there is hope. Otherwise you will ruin their lives."

21: 3 "The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices."

26: 20 "...quarrels disappear when gossip stops."

27: 2 "Let someone else praise you, notyour own mouth - a stranger, not your own lips."

27:15 A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day."

28:6 "Better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and rich."

28:27 "Whoever gives to the poor with lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed."

29:11 "Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back."