Quick Overview: Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement. Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments. Those who get rich quick rarely stay rich long.
Proverbs Practicals 110 Proverbs 20 - Detailed Overview & Context
Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement. Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments. Those who get rich quick rarely stay rich long. There are two key qualities which establish someone in a position of authority. There are things about our path and our future that we can't possibly know. Perhaps we should rather focus on what we can know. The things which impress us and are important to us gradually shift as we age.
Do we think the one who made the eye will be blind to what we do and what happens to us? God can use our moral nature to help us examine ourselves, and we should be seeking God's illumination of our heart and ways. There are some people who cannot be trusted to pay their debts and will eventually meet disaster; here are two of them. Wise authorities will try to diminish the effectiveness and even eradicate the existence of wickedness within their sphere of ... Dishonoring our heritage can limit our legacy. Ultimately, lies always deceive the liar.
Character becomes action, and action becomes reputation. Among the things God really hates is dishonesty in business.
