Proverbs 18:23

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The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly. [Proverbs 18:23]   Above all else, men desire to be rulers of themselves. This statement holds for the righteous and the wicked- except that these two understand rulership in very different ways. The righteous man would rule himself in stewardship, honoring and following God with all at…

Proverbs 18:22

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He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. [Proverbs 18:22]   The two great passions of mankind are marriage and death. In ‘marriage’ is gathered not merely itself but family, sex, and all relationship with our fellow man, all authority and cooperation, the smallest thing which society is…