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Reputation, Generosity, and Child Discipline

Proverbs 22:1-16

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Chapter 22
1 A good name is better than great wealth, than silver and gold: good grace. 2 The rich and the poor have met; the LORD has made them both. 3 The prudent see evil and hide, but the naive pass on and are punished. 4 The result of humility and the fear of the LORD: wealth and glory and life. 5 Thorns and snares are in the crooked way; he who guards his life force will keep far from them. 6 Dedicate the boy according to the mouth of his way; even when he grows old he will not turn away from it. 7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is a servant to the lender. 8 He who sows injustice reaps disaster, and the rod of his fury will cease. 9 He will bless the generous eye, for its bread is given to the poor. 10 Drive out the mocker, and strife goes out; and judgment and shame cease. 11 He who loves a pure heart, grace of his lips—the king is his friend. 12 The eyes of the LORD keep knowledge, and he subverts the words of covenant betrayal. 13 The sluggard said, "A lion is outside; I will be murdered in the midst of the open spaces." 14 A deep pit—the mouth of a foreign woman; the one wrathful of the LORD will fall there. 15 Folly is bound in the heart of a youth; the rod of discipline will drive it far from him. 16 Oppressing a poor man to make much for him—giving to a rich man—only to lack.