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Proverbs 9:1–6 – Wisdom’s Feast

What happens: Wisdom builds a house, prepares a feast, and sends invitations to the simple. She calls them to leave foolishness and live. Life is found at her table.

What it means: God invites people into fellowship and life through His wise ways. Wisdom satisfies deeper than quick fixes. Turning from folly is repentance that leads to joy. God’s generosity sets the table for all who will come.

Proverbs 9:7–12 – How to Respond to Correction

What happens: Scoffers hate correction, but the wise love it and grow. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is insight. Through wisdom, years are multiplied.

What it means: Teachability is a spiritual test that reveals the heart before God. The fear of the Lord centers life on His holiness and authority. God blesses those who welcome truth, proving His faithfulness. Wisdom enlarges life because it aligns with God.

Proverbs 9:13–18 – Folly’s Deadly Imitation

What happens: Folly is loud and seductive, offering stolen water and secret bread. The simple do not know that her guests are in the depths of the grave. Her house looks lively but is filled with death.

What it means: Sin counterfeits God’s gifts and hides the cost. God warns because He is just and merciful. Secret indulgence breeds decay, not joy. Choosing God’s wisdom is choosing life.

Application

  • Choose the table of wisdom by leaving habits that feed folly.
  • Welcome correction from godly voices and act on it quickly.
  • Expose counterfeits by asking what end a path leads to.

Bible

1Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

2She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

3She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

15To call passengers who go right on their ways:

16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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