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Proverbs 16:9

Proverbs 16:9 ESV The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+16%3A9&version=ESV]   Why does life happen the way it does? Why do some acts brings one result and some another? Why do we hurt or love or enjoy or despair?  Life has a thousands bits and pieces in it, and…

A Bible open to proverbs with authorial attribution to Colson Potter in bottom left

Proverbs 16:8

Proverbs 16:8 ESV Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+16%3A8&version=ESV]   Envy lives strong in mankind’s heart. Envy, the strong right hand of greed, topples empires and slaughters innocents; envy brings first seeming justice and then damning evil; envy finds a pretext for every deed, so long as its victim…

A Bible open to proverbs with authorial attribution to Colson Potter in bottom left

Proverbs 16:7

Proverbs 16:7 ESV When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+16%3A7&version=ESV]   This proverb is one which the world seems to flat out contradict. We try our best, it seems, and our enemies still persist in being our enemies, still assault us. It doesn’t…