Welcome to Proverbs chapter 21 on Build Your Bible Habit. This chapter discusses undesirable character traits,

giving us something to consider carefully in our behavior with others. Think about it. Would you

want to live with someone who seems to always find something to fuss about? These topics and others are covered in ways to make us think.

Let's read this chapter together. Proverbs chapter 21. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,

as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he will. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,

but the Lord pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than

sacrifice. And high look and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked is sin. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to pleniousness,

but of everyone that is hasty only to want. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity

tossed to and fro of them that seek death. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them

because they refuse to do judgment.

The way of man is froward and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

The soul of the wicked desireth evil,

his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes.

When the scorner is punished,

the simple is made wise,

and when the wise is instructed,

he receiveth knowledge.

The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked, but God overthroweth the

wicked for their wickedness. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry

himself, but shall not be heard. A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a reward in the bosom, strong wrath.

It is joy to the just to do judgment, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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