Proverbs 22

It is not enough that in baptism your child is dedicated to God, but it must be educated for God. Children are young plants which you must be continually watering with good instruction (Proverbs 22:6). Train up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it when…

Eleventhly, the adulterer is abhorred of God. (Proverbs 22:14) The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he who is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. What can be worse than to be abhorred of God?

4. A man may be a thief to himself by suretyship. Be not you one of them that are sureties for debt (Proverbs 22:26): the creditor comes upon the surety for debt, and so by paying another's debt he is a thief to himself, he undoes himself. Let not any man say, he should have bee…

When carnal fear prevails, it makes men change their religion, as fast as the chameleon does its colors: Many of the Jews who were great followers of Christ, when they saw the swords and staves deserted him. What Solomon says of the sluggard, is as true of the coward, he says, t…

The verb this comes of means 'to promise,' which comes from the phrase meaning 'in hands,' that is, striking hands or giving one's hand as a sign of a covenant, and so to bargain with or make up a covenant. Proverbs 22:26: 'Be not you one of them that strike hands, or of them th…

As the sound get a sickness from the diseased, sooner than the sick get health from the sound. Or in the types of the law; that which was clean, by touching the unclean became unclean; but the unclean were not purified by touching the clean (Proverbs 22:24-25). Make no friendshi…

Lastly, we must seek to be approved of men, not so much in regard of ourselves, as that, by this means God's glory may be more and more advanced: for our light must so shine before men, that they may see our good works, and glorify our father, which is in heaven (Matthew 5:16).…

Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old e will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 (4.) Here you have, or may have the help and assistance of Christians to direct your way, resolve your doubts, support your burthens, and help you through those difficulties tha…

By single eye, some understand a liberal minde; and by the wicked eye, an []ious and couetous minde: and so they make Christ here to speake of liberalitie and couetousnes. Now it is true that the words will beare this sense, for Salomon puts the good eye, for the liberall and me…

V. He that gives rash judgment of another, is worse then a theefe that steales away a mans goods: for he robbes him of his good name, which (as Salomon saith) is to be chosen above great riches, Prov. 22. 1. Againe, riches may be restored, so can not a mans good name beeing once…

3. A sort of shame may be in it, I am now out of a posture, and I think shame to rise, and to be seen: Which shows, 1. That it's hard to raise one that has fallen into security. 2. To lazy souls every thing looks like an insuperable difficulty, their way to duty is as an hedge o…

Where then shall their portion be, but in that lake which burns with fire and brimstone unquenchable? Where the Lord will spoil their very souls, as the wise man's expression is (Proverbs 22:23): Rob not the poor, for the Lord will plead their cause, and will spoil the souls of…

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. The former commandment provided for the security of every man's property, that they may suffer no wrong nor detriment in their goods: this which I have now read to you, provides for the preservation of their good name, whic…

And indeed God does often in this life visit this sin; sometimes by filling their loins with strange and loathsome diseases (Proverbs 6:26), sometimes by reducing them to extreme beggary; for this sin, as Job speaks, is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all…

Fourthly, Be not familiar with any angry person: For as one fire will kindle another, so it is likely that his choler will kindle yours; till both flame into an inordinate and extravagant passion. See the direction expressly given us (Proverbs 22:24-25): Make no friendship with…

And as sure as the harvest follows the seed-time, so sure shall such fruits and effects result from the seeds of such actions. He that sows iniquity, shall reap vanity (Proverbs 22:8). And they that now go forth weeping, and bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again rejo…

Whether this be a sufficient discharge of that great duty which God has laid upon Christian Parents, in reference to their families? That God has charged them with the souls of their families is undeniable, Deut. 6. 6, 7. Eph. 6. 4. If God had not cloathed you with his authority…

Mine, which is mine." Husbandmen divide and separate their own lands from other men's; they have their landmarks and boundaries, by which property is preserved (Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 22:28). So are the people of God wonderfully separated, and distinguished from all the peo…

7. Delight in the company of meek and quiet persons. Solomon prescribes it as a preservative against foolish passion, to make no friendship with an angry man, lest you learn his way (Proverbs 22:24-25). When your neighbor's heart is on fire, it is time to look to your own.

That this Sin is a dreadful Gulph, a Quick-sand that has suck'd and destroyed thousands, is truly apparent, both from Scripture and Experience. Solomon tells us, Proverbs 22:14. That it is a deep ditch, into which such as are abhorred of the Lord shall fall. Oh the multitudes of…

APPLICATION. Thus cruel, merciless, and oppressive are wicked Men, whose tender mercies are cruelty, Proverbs 22:10. We see the like cruelty in our Extortioners, and over-reaching Sharks ashore, who grind the faces of the Poor, and regard not the Cries of the Fatherless and Wido…

Positive, in regard of the good that may be gained thereby. 1. Many are the evils which children by nature are prone to, even as rank ground is subject to bring forth many weeds: for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: and foolishness is bound in the heart of…

As a man that walks in the sun is tanned before he is aware: so are the souls of men sullied and defiled by carnal company, before they be aware. A man would think of all sins, passion is so uncomely, that it should not tempt another man: yet it is said (Proverbs 22:24-25), make…

He that sends a present, he is the giver, not the servant which brings it: So, though others be employed as instruments, it is the Lord which made them able and willing to do us good. If they come to us by inheritance, it is the providence of God that a man is born of rich frien…

O when we consider the distinction between us and others, every one has not such liberal supplies, in fact, many of those of whom the world is not worthy; surely this is merely the Lord's goodness. (Proverbs 22:2) The rich and the poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of the…

A sermon (Number 1670) delivered on Thursday Evening, June eighth, 1882, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, by C. H. Spurgeon. “The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.”—Proverbs 22:13. “The slothful man says, There is a lion in th…

He foresees and avoids those Rocks which others run upon. Proverbs 22:3. Though divine Fear does not make a Person Cowardly, it makes him Cautions.

And therefore as soon as we come to the use of reason, we should restore his right with advantage. 2. In regard of himself: The first seasoning of the vessel is very considerable (Proverbs 22:6): Train up a child in the way in which he should go, and when he is old, he will not…

It is one of the promises of God, He will hide us as in a pavilion from the strife of tongues (Psalm 31:20). This is frequent in the Old Testament, where heaven is but sparingly mentioned, a good name is often mentioned; partly, because it is a shadow of eternity; when a man die…

And partly too, because grace gives us a right judgment of all things. Now it is represented in Scripture as better than riches (Proverbs 22:1). It is better as in other respects, so in this: it is a motive more pure and sublime than wealth, and in the operations of it, it comes…

All conversation with the wicked is not forbidden, for then we must go out of the world; and to some we are bound by the law of necessity, or some civil, and religious, or natural bond; yet we are to eschew all unnecessary and voluntary fellowship and familiarity with them; (Psa…

As a man that walks in the sunshine is tanned insensibly, and as Moses's face shined by conversing with God, before we are aware, we adopt their manners and customs, and get a tincture from them. So (Proverbs 22:24-25) Make no friendship with an angry man: and with a furious man…

Read and tremble (Isaiah 30:8-9): Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever, that this is a rebellious people, children that will not hear the law of the Lord. If nothing yet will calm the wrathful devil,…

Second reason: because the appearance of evil may eclipse his good name. A good name is a precious ointment, better than fine gold (Proverbs 22:1). It commends us to God and angels in a way riches cannot.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7: These words which I command you this day, you shall teach them diligently to your children. Proverbs 22:6: Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Ephesians 6:4: Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but…

4. A man must deny carnal self; this I take to be the chief sense of the text. 1. He must deny self-ease; the flesh cries out for ease, it is loath to put its neck under Christ's yoke, or stretch itself upon the cross; the flesh cries out there is a lion in the way (Proverbs 22:…

15. There is a froward heart (Proverbs 17:20) that perverts and is crafty [illegible] to pervert. 16. A wicked heart (Proverbs 26:23) set on evil (Ecclesiastes 8:11, 17); foolishness is bound to the heart (Proverbs 22:15); a dissembling heart, when seven abominations are in it (…

But God gave him a body (Hebrews 7:5), and God made him sin, [in non-Latin alphabet] (2 Corinthians 5:11). So a Surety is one that promises to satisfy for another, and comes from a verb which signifies to promise by striking of hands (Proverbs 22:26): Be not you among them that…

I am persuaded that the author of the arguments following will fail of his intention with all that have so much reason as to know how to make use of reason, and so much grace as not to love darkness more than light. Argument 1: That which the Scripture often and plainly affirms…

1 They foresee the evil of a Temptation, 2 Corinthians 2:11. We are not ignorant of his devices; The wicked swallow temptations like Pills, and when it is too late, feel these Pills gripe their Conscience; but the godly fore-see a Temptation and will not come near; they see a sn…

6th Commandment: You shall not kill. He breaks this commandment: who bears malice to another (1 John 3:15); who is given to hastiness (Matthew 5:22); who uses inward fretting and grudging (James 3:14); who is froward of nature, hard to please (Romans 1:31); who is full of rancor…

Faithful: You know what I mean; all carnal and fleshly content. Christian: Thank God that you escaped her: the abhorred of the Lord shall fall into her pit (Proverbs 22:14). Faithful: No, I know not whether I did wholly escape her or no.

There are many good lessons in this chapter, but above all learn this, it would not be lost labor to teach your children to learn such a chapter, but learn first to keep your own hearts; you have been taught, that no member you have is so deceitful as the heart, it will soonest…

First, faith before afflictions has a double work. First, before afflictions come, it is the nature of faith to foresee and fear them (Proverbs 22:3). A prudent man foresees an evil, and hides himself, and (Job 3:25) that which I feared is come upon me; he did beforehand fear su…