Proverbs 24

Answer: Iustitia est jus suum cuique tribuere; Justice is to give everyone his due. God's Justice is the rectitude of his nature, whereby he is carried to the doing of that which is righteous and equal; (Proverbs 24:12) Shall not he render to every man according to his works? Go…

While the pilot has his eye to the star, he has his hand to the stern. Without labor the pillars of a commonwealth will dissolve, and the earth will be like the sluggard's field, over-run with briars (Proverbs 24:31). Adam in innocency, though he was the monarch of the world, ye…

A man may know his other debts, but we cannot number our spiritual debts. Every vain thought is a sin (Proverbs 24:9) — the thought of foolishness is sin, and what swarms of vain thoughts have we? The first rising of corruption, though it never blossom into outward act, is a sin…

O, says nature, revenge is sweet — but O, says God, the effects thereof shall be bitter. How plainly has God forbidden this flesh-pleasing sin: Proverbs 20:22, 'Say not, I will recompense evil'; Proverbs 24:29, 'Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me'; Romans 12:17, '…

Job 34:11. Proverbs 24:12. Jeremiah 32:19.

Naphtali's tribe, that was famous for giving goodly words (Genesis 49:21), had the happiness of being satisfied with favor (Deuteronomy 33:23). For every man shall kiss his lips that gives a right answer (Proverbs 24:26). In the conjugal relation, it is taken for granted (1 Cori…

An evil tongue devours, and is an abomination, and in Prov. 8:13 God says, The froward mouth he hates: Now if you have any love you should think thus, This poor man what has he done? he has brought himself under the hatred of God; now this should mightily affect the hearts of th…

In regard of their good who are reproved, it is said, Reproofs for instruction are the way of life (Proverbs 6:23): they cause understanding (Proverbs 15:32); and make prudent (Proverbs 15:5). In regard of their good who reprove, it is said, To them that rebuke shall be delight…

Some men will say, we will do to him, as he has done to us. (Proverbs 24:29) Say not, I will do so to him, as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work. Corrupt nature thirsts for revenge, and has a strong inclination this way; but grace should give check…

Delivered by C. H. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. “ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was…

“I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and…

We startle at Gross sin, but we are not troubled so much for sinful Thoughts. Know, 1. That sin may be committed in the Thoughts, though it never blossom into outward Act, Proverbs 24:9. The Thought of Foolishness is sin.

(1.) Truth is the good of the understanding; therefore when the faculty is suited with a fit object, this correspondence causes a rejoicing and delectation. Proverbs 24:14. My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, because it is sweet to your taste: so shall the k…

Light is comfortable, and it is a pleasant thing to behold the sun, much more the light of the gospel shining in upon our minds; Oh what a pleasant thing is that, when all clouds vanish, and the truths of God are fully cleared up to the soul! None knows the sweetness of it but h…

2. Strength for bearing of burdens with patience, that we may not faint under them (Colossians 1:11), "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness." That we may not faint under our affliction (Proverbs 24:10), "…

The preserving of inherent grace against temptations, forgiving many sins after conversion (Isaiah 55:7): Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly…

Let me give you this gradation: the pleasures of contemplation exceed those of sense; and the delights of the mind are more sincere and real than those of the body: for the more noble the faculty is, the more capable of delight. A man in his study about natural things, has a tru…

1. Their natural blindness, 1 Corinthians 2:14. The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. They are incompetent judges, Proverbs 24:7. Wisdom is too high for a f…

The one is but a taste inviting to the other, which gives us a fuller draught. The bare contemplation and view of any concerning and weighty truth is very ravishing to those that bend their minds to knowledge (Proverbs 24:13-14): "My Son, eat honey, because it is good; and the h…

5. Fainting argues weakness if not nullity of grace. (Proverbs 24:10) If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. A zealous constant mind will overcome all discouragements (2 Timothy 1:7): For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and…

We evidence our love to sin, if we are overmuch troubled at it, or peevishly quarrel with God. Fainting shows our weakness (Proverbs 24:10). If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

First, it argues that you are lazy, love the ease of the flesh, have small strength, if you faint upon every appearance of difficulty and trouble. (Proverbs 24:10), If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Sinners are not discouraged with every inconvenience…

Most have too great a coldness and indifference for enemies. (Proverbs 24:29) I will do so to him as he has done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. This is to take the work out of God's hands; to review the arrogance of Adam, Be as Gods.

Secondly, you will hereby entitle yourself to that great and precious promise, that they that be wise, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever (Daniel 12:3). And to that other of the wise man, "To t…

Approbation and being accessory is concluded from hence, when men flatter others, and speak peace to them in their evil ways: when men say peace, where God says there is none, that is, to the wicked. God and man will curse him that says to the wicked, you are righteous (Proverbs…

I remember I said, that sins of omission made way for sins of commission, and it is but too true: Job's friends hearing such unsaint-like language from him as cursing, concluded that he omitted praying; you restrain prayer from God (Job 15:4). When men neglect duty, they do usua…

Some talk of the world, and declaim against it as a vanity, who think vainly in their heart, that their houses shall endure for ever (Psalm 49:11). So the rich man said within himself, you have good laid up for many years (as if he thought these things his happiness) but it is s…

He will be an apostate at last, the scab of hypocrisy usually breaks out in the plague sore of apostasy; conversion ground is standing ground, it is terra firma, but a graceless profession of religion is slippery ground, and falling ground, Julian the Apostate was first Julian t…

(1 Corinthians 2:14) The natural man receives not the things of God. (Proverbs 24:7) Wisdom is too high for a fool. If the will out of a natural ability, or faculty, could choose a supernatural good, then where there is this faculty, this act may be put forth.

Poor sinner, you complain that you have no communion with God; a time was when God made himself known to you, but now he has grown strange. This is the reason: sin has spoiled Christ's walks; your heart lies like the field of the sluggard (Proverbs 24:30). Oh weed your heart dai…

Use 3 Secondly, show your loyalty, O ye Saints, to God by a vigorous resistance of, and wrestling against these spirituals of wickedness. First, consider, Christian, heart-sins are sins as well as any; The thought of foolishnesse is sin, Proverbs 24:9. Mercury is poison in the w…

I confess every reiteration of sin, puts a further aggravation upon it: and it is sad we should repent, and sin; and sin, and repent. But yet you read (Proverbs 24:16): 'A just man falls seven times, and rises up again.' Job's friends were good men, yet he tells them (Job 19:3):…

And such are our thoughts by nature. Proverbs 24:9 — the thought of foolishness is sin. And therefore a man is to be humbled for a proud thought (Proverbs 30:32), for so laying hand on the mouth is taken (as Job 39:37) for being vile in a man's own eyes.

Use 1: To teach us what to judge of the fruit of an ill kept heart, the issues of it, what they are, you hear: if the heart be well kept, it will keep life in all our performances; but what if the heart be ill kept? Then the issues of it are the issues of death, dead thoughts, d…