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Proverbs 12

¹If you love learning, you love the discipline that goes with it— how shortsighted to refuse correction!

²A good person basks in the delight of GOD, and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.

³You can’t find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm.

⁴A hearty wife invigorates her husband, but a frigid woman is cancer in the bones.

⁵The thinking of principled people makes for justice; the plots of degenerates corrupt.

⁶The words of the wicked kill; the speech of the upright saves.

⁷Wicked people fall to pieces—there’s nothing to them; the homes of good people hold together.

⁸A person who talks sense is honored; airheads are held in contempt.

⁹Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.

¹⁰Good people are good to their animals; the “good-hearted” bad people kick and abuse them.

¹¹The one who stays on the job has food on the table; the witless chase whims and fancies.

¹²What the wicked construct finally falls into ruin, while the roots of the righteous give life, and more life.

¹³The gossip of bad people gets them in trouble; the conversation of good people keeps them out of it.

¹⁴Well-spoken words bring satisfaction; well-done work has its own reward.

¹⁵Fools are headstrong and do what they like; wise people take advice.

¹⁶Fools have short fuses and explode all too quickly; the prudent quietly shrug off insults.

¹⁷Truthful witness by a good person clears the air, but liars lay down a smoke screen of deceit.

¹⁸Rash language cuts and maims, but there is healing in the words of the wise.

¹⁹Truth lasts; lies are here today, gone tomorrow.

²⁰Evil scheming distorts the schemer; peace-planning brings joy to the planner.

²¹No evil can overwhelm a good person, but the wicked have their hands full of it.

²²God can’t stomach liars; he loves the company of those who keep their word.

²³Prudent people don’t flaunt their knowledge; talkative fools broadcast their silliness.

²⁴The diligent find freedom in their work; the lazy are oppressed by work.

²⁵Worry weighs us down; a cheerful word picks us up.

²⁶A good person survives misfortune, but a wicked life invites disaster.

²⁷A lazy life is an empty life, but “early to rise” gets the job done.

²⁸Good men and women travel right into life; sin’s detours take you straight to hell.