Build Your Bible Habit-Proverbs Chapter 21

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

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Welcome back to Build Your Bible Habit, where you can listen to a chapter of Proverbs in less than five minutes. If you are new at this, expect to increase in wisdom and understanding of how to handle the "issues of life." If you've been reading along for a while, you've probably already noticed how God uses the practical teachings of Proverbs to guide and instruct us for daily living. Here's a great verse reminding us that our motives matter: Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. (Proverbs 21:2) Books, Bible Studies, and more in the Shop at Keep the Heart Apply: Living What We Learn--31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor Ponder the Path: A 31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor NEW: Hope Endures: A Biography of Faith by Jennifer Arrington BIBLE STUDY GROUPS: ICU: In Christ Unconditionally-Heart Conditions NEW: The Counting Tree by Jennifer Arrington From Overwhelmed to Overcomer by Natalie Raynes Blanton Herbs for the Heart: A Study of James by Kathy Ashley Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Proverbs chapter 21 on Build Your Bible Habit. This chapter discusses undesirable character traits,
0:09.4	giving us something to consider carefully in our behavior with others. Think about it. Would you
0:15.1	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.
0:23.6	Let's read this chapter together. Proverbs chapter 21. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,
0:32.7	as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he will. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
0:40.2	but the Lord pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than
0:46.4	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,
0:57.1	but of everyone that is hasty only to want. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity
1:04.0	tossed to and fro of them that seek death. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them
1:10.1	because they refuse to do judgment.
1:13.3	The way of man is froward and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.
1:19.7	It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
1:26.9	The soul of the wicked desireth evil,
1:29.6	his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes.
1:33.3	When the scorner is punished,
1:35.1	the simple is made wise,
1:36.8	and when the wise is instructed,
1:39.0	he receiveth knowledge.
1:41.4	The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked, but God overthroweth the
1:46.7	wicked for their wickedness. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry
1:53.5	himself, but shall not be heard. A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a reward in the bosom, strong wrath.
2:02.8	It is joy to the just to do judgment, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
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