Money and Generosity
Money and Generosity

Matt Looloian

Proverbs 11:24

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

Matt Looloian
Sex and Temptation
Sex and Temptation

Pastor Matt Looloian

Proverbs 5 (English Standard Version)

Warning Against Adultery

5 My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
    incline your ear to my understanding,
2 that you may keep discretion,
    and your lips may guard knowledge.
3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil,
4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
    sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death;
    her steps follow the path to Sheol;
6 she does not ponder the path of life;
    her ways wander, and she does not know it.

7 And now, O sons, listen to me,
    and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Keep your way far from her,
    and do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you give your honor to others
    and your years to the merciless,
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
    and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
11 and at the end of your life you groan,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, “How I hated discipline,
    and my heart despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
    or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 I am at the brink of utter ruin
    in the assembled congregation.”

15 Drink water from your own cistern,
    flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be scattered abroad,
    streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be for yourself alone,
    and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
    and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19     a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
    be intoxicated always in her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
    and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
    and he ponders all his paths.
22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
    and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
23 He dies for lack of discipline,
    and because of his great folly he is led astray.

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Friendship
Friendship

Pastor Bob Carvella

Proverbs 19:6-7 (English Standard Version)

6
Many seek the favor of a generous man,
and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
7
All a poor man's brothers hate him;
how much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

Proverbs 18:24 (English Standard Version)

24
A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 27:9 (English Standard Version)

9
Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

John 15:13 (English Standard Version)

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Bob Carvella
Anger
Anger

Pastor Greg Kabakjian, Midtown Community Church

Proverbs 29:11 (English Standard Version)

11 A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
    but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 20:22 (English Standard Version)

22 Do not say, “I will repay evil”;
    wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

John 11:38a (English Standard Version)

Jesus Raises Lazarus

38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb.

Greg Kabakjian
The Tongue and the Heart
The Tongue and the Heart

Jordan Porr

Proverbs 4:20-23 (English Standard Version)

20 My son, be attentive to my words;
    incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Let them not escape from your sight;
    keep them within your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them,
    and healing to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
    for from it flow the springs of life.

Jordan Porr
Proverbial Parenting
Proverbial Parenting

Ben LeClair, Elder

Proverbs 1:8-9 (English Standard Version)

The Enticement of Sinners

8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
    and forsake not your mother's teaching,
9 for they are a graceful garland for your head
    and pendants for your neck.

Proverbs 22:15 (English Standard Version)

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 3:11-12 (English Standard Version)

11 My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline
    or be weary of his reproof,
12 for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
    as a father the son in whom he delights.

Ben LeClair
Pride and Humility
Pride and Humility

Pastor Matt Looloian

Proverbs 3:34 (English Standard Version)

34 Toward the scorners he is scornful,
    but to the humble he gives favor.

Proverbs 8:13 (English Standard Version)

13 The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
    and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs 16:18-19 (English Standard Version)

18 Pride goes before destruction,
    and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
    than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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The Most Important Choice
The Most Important Choice

Pastor Matt Looloian

Proverbs 9 (English Standard Version)

The Way of Wisdom

9 Wisdom has built her house;
    she has hewn her seven pillars.
2 She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine;
    she has also set her table.
3 She has sent out her young women to call
    from the highest places in the town,
4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
    To him who lacks sense she says,
5 “Come, eat of my bread
    and drink of the wine I have mixed.
6 Leave your simple ways, and live,
    and walk in the way of insight.”

7 Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,
    and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
8 Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
    reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;
    teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
    and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
11 For by me your days will be multiplied,
    and years will be added to your life.
12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself;
    if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

The Way of Folly

13 The woman Folly is loud;
    she is seductive and knows nothing.
14 She sits at the door of her house;
    she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,
15 calling to those who pass by,
    who are going straight on their way,
16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
    And to him who lacks sense she says,
17 “Stolen water is sweet,
    and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
18 But he does not know that the dead are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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The Beginning of Wisdom
The Beginning of Wisdom

Pastor Matt Looloian

Proverbs 1:1-7 (English Standard Version)

The Beginning of Knowledge

1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

2 To know wisdom and instruction,
    to understand words of insight,
3 to receive instruction in wise dealing,
    in righteousness, justice, and equity;
4 to give prudence to the simple,
    knowledge and discretion to the youth—
5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning,
    and the one who understands obtain guidance,
6 to understand a proverb and a saying,
    the words of the wise and their riddles.

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

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