The Value of Wisdom

17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your mind to my knowledge; 18 For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.

Keep them withing you for the purpose of putting them into practice in your life

“on your lips” speaking these truth to others. Proverbs is portable truth that can be transmitted to others easily. Proverbs are like t-shirt sayings of the wise, or refrigerator magnets of truth, or bumper stickers of wisdom.

2. So That Our Trust May Be in God (19)

Proverbs 22:19 NASB95

19 So that your trust may be in the Lord, I have taught you today, even you.

3. Confirm Truth (20-21)

Proverbs 22:20–21 NASB95

20 Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, 21 To make you know the certainty of the words of truth That you may correctly answer him who sent you?

1 Peter 3:15 NASB95

15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

4. To Answer Those Who Question (21)

Proverbs 22:21 NASB95

21 To make you know the certainty of the words of truth That you may correctly answer him who sent you?

5. Discernment (1:1-2)

Proverbs 1:1–2 NASB95

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2 To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding,

6. Prudence for the Naive (1:3-4)

Proverbs 1:3–4 NASB95

3 To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice and equity; 4 To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion,

7. Discretion for the Youth (1:4)

Proverbs 1:4 NASB95

4 To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion,

8. Increase the Leaning of the Wise (1:5-6)

Proverbs 1:5–6 NASB95

5 A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel, 6 To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume Proverbs 1:1–6

This book will not only make the foolish and bad wise and good, but the wise and good wiser and better

2 Peter 3:16 (NASB95)

16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

9. To Fear the Lord (1:7)

Proverbs 1:7 NASB95

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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