![]() ![]() One who is wise will learn from what he is taught.ġ2 God, the righteous one, knows what goes on in the homes of the wicked, and he will bring the wicked down to ruin.ġ3 If you refuse to listen to the cry of the poor, your own cry for help will not be heard.ġ4 If someone is angry with you, a gift given secretly will calm him down.ġ5 When justice is done, good people are happy, but evil people are brought to despair.ġ6 Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense.ġ7 Indulging in luxuries, wine, and rich food will never make you wealthy.ġ8 The wicked bring on themselves the suffering they try to cause good people.ġ9 Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife.Ģ0 Wise people live in wealth and luxury, but stupid people spend their money as fast as they get it.Ģ1 Be kind and honest and you will live a long life others will respect you and treat you fairly.Ģ2 A shrewd general can take a city defended by strong men, and destroy the walls they relied on.Ģ3 If you want to stay out of trouble, be careful what you say.Ģ4 Show me a conceited person and I will show you someone who is arrogant, proud, and inconsiderate.Ģ5 Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves 26 all they do is think about what they would like to have. Which is more than he is said to follow after: "life" spiritual, which he has from Christ by his Spirit, and which is owing to the grace and mercy of God and eternal life, through the righteousness of Christ, in whom it is only to be found, and from whom all the blessings of life come who has it in his hands to give, and does give it to all his people: "righteousness" also he finds, not in himself, nor by the works of the law, but in Christ being directed to him by the Spirit and word of God and an excellent finding this is a robe of righteousness, which he lays hold upon, puts on, and rejoices in: and likewise "honour", through relation to God and Christ through grace received from them by enjoying the presence of them, and being made a king and priest to God and hereafter will be placed at Christ's right hand, inherit the kingdom of glory, sit on the same throne with Christ, and wear the crown of life and righteousness.1 The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.Ģ You may think that everything you do is right, but remember that the LORD judges your motives.ģ Do what is right and fair that pleases the LORD more than bringing him sacrifices.Ĥ Wicked people are controlled by their conceit and arrogance, and this is sinful.ĥ Plan carefully and you will have plenty if you act too quickly, you will never have enough.Ħ The riches you get by dishonesty soon disappear, but not before they lead you into the jaws of death.ħ The wicked are doomed by their own violence they refuse to do what is right.Ĩ Guilty people walk a crooked path the innocent do what is right.ĩ Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife.ġ0 Wicked people are always hungry for evil they have no mercy on anyone.ġ1 When someone who is conceited gets his punishment, even an unthinking person learns a lesson. And such a man findeth life, righteousness, and honour And such follow after "mercy" or "grace" F7 seeing themselves miserable by sin, and having no merit of their own, apply to God for pardoning grace and mercy and seek for righteousness in a way of grace, as a free gift and for the whole of salvation in the same way, as well as for all grace and fresh supplies of it: it may be understood, in consequence of the former, of a diligent and eager performance of works of righteousness and mercy, and an earnest desire after both. To follow after it is to seek, desire, and thirst after it, ( Matthew 5:6 ) ( 6:33 ) which supposes a want of righteousness, a sense of that want a view of a righteousness without them, even in Christ a love and liking of it, and therefore follow after it it being pure, perfect, agreeably to the law and justice of God, which justifies now, and will answer for them in a time to come. Is eager, diligent, and fervent in his pursuit of these things: "after righteousness" not a legal righteousness, such as the Jews followed after, but did not attain to because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, ( Romans 9:31 Romans 9:32 ) by which there is no righteousness or justification before God but an evangelical righteousness, the righteousness of Christ see ( Isaiah 51:1 ). ![]() ![]() He that followeth after righteousness and mercy ![]()
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