Welcome to Proverbs chapter 17 on Build Your Bible Habit. There are plenty of relationship instructions

woven into this chapter. Verse 9 reminds us not to go around telling others how someone else has

hurt us, while verse 14 clearly states that conflicts always have a telltale beginning, signaling us to avoid making matters worse.

This chapter is like a combination of recipes and roadmaps. Let's read it together.

Proverbs chapter 17. Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of

sacrifices with strife. A wise servant shall have

rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

The finding pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the Lord trieth the hearts.

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips, and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker, and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their fathers.

Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do lying lips a prince.

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it, whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth a matter

separateth very friends. A reproof entereth more into a wise man than in hundred stripes into a fool.

An evil man seeketh only rebellion, therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly whoso rewardeth evil for good evil shall not depart from his house the beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water, therefore leave off contention

before it be meddled with. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,

even they both are abomination to the Lord. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get

wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it a friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity

a man void of understanding striketh hands and becomeeth surety in the presence of his friend he loveth transgression that loveth strife, and he that exalteth

his gait seeketh destruction. He that hath a froward heart findeth no good, and he that hath a perverse

tongue falleth into mischief. He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow, and the father a fool hath no joy a merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit dryeth the bones

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