Bible Reading for July 20

Bible Reading for July 20

Proverbs Chapter 22

1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving 
favour rather than silver and gold.

2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple 
pass on, and are punished.

4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.

5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his 
soul shall be far from them.

6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will 
not depart from it.

7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger 
shall fail.

9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his 
bread to the poor.

10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and 
reproach shall cease.

11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king 
shall be his friend.

12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the 
words of the transgressor.

13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in 
the streets.

14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the 
LORD shall fall therein.

15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of 
correction shall drive it far from him.

16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that 
giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine 
heart unto my knowledge.

18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall 
withal be fitted in thy lips.

19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this 
day, even to thee.

20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that 
thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted 
in the gate:

23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that 
spoiled them.

24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou 
shalt not go:

25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are 
sureties for debts.

27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from 
under thee?

28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before 
kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Proverbs Chapter 23

1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is 
before thee:

2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly 
make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire 
thou his dainty meats:

7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to 
thee; but his heart is not with thee.

8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy 
sweet words.

9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy 
words.

10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the 
fatherless:

11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of 
knowledge.

13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with 
the rod, he shall not die.

14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD 
all the day long.

18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and 
drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother 
when she is old.

23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and 
understanding.

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that 
begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall 
rejoice.

26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the 
transgressors among men.

29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath 
babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour 
in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter 
perverse things.

34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or 
as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have 
beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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