Proverbs 11:19-12:6 (Vespers, 2nd reading)
- 19
- As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
- 20
- Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the Lord, but the blameless in their ways are His delight.
- 21
- Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished; but the posterity of the righteous will be delivered.
- 22
- As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion.
- 23
- The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
- 24
- There is one who scatters, yet increases more; and there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty.
- 25
- The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself.
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- The people will curse him who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
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- He who earnestly seeks good finds favor, but trouble will come to him who seeks evil.
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- He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like foliage.
- 29
- He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
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- The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
- 31
- If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner.
- 1
- Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
- 2
- A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of wicked intentions He will condemn.
- 3
- A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous cannot be moved.
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- An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.
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- The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
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- The words of the wicked are, “Lie in wait for blood,” but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.