Build Your Bible Habit-Proverbs Chapter 27

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

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Welcome back to Build Your Bible Habit. This is a habit that you'll never want to break. The practical wisdom from daily Proverbs equips us to walk in wisdom, making us better in handling the multiple decisions and interactions that come our way. God left us a GOLD MINE in His Word, and all we need to do is read it and apply it to our lives. The peace of God is not related to our circumstances. It is a result of walking with Him. Friendship is one of many areas touched on in Proverbs 27, and verse 17 gives us a chance to consider friendship from two angles: the kind of friends we choose and the kind of friend that we are to others. God meant for us to keep each other spiritually sharp. Here's a great reminder verse for the week: "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." (Proverbs 27:17) VISIT THE SHOP AT KEEP THE HEART FOR BOOKS, BIBLE STUDIES & MORE! BIBLE STUDY GROUPS: ICU: In Christ Unconditionally-Heart Conditions Apply: Living What We Learn--31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor Ponder the Path: A 31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor FOR COUPLES: Rough Patches: Temporary Marital Tensions by Francie Taylor What Do I Have to Lose: A 50-Day Devotional (Book Two) by Janice Wolfe From Overwhelmed to Overcomer by Natalie Raynes Blanton Herbs for the Heart: A Study of James by Kathy Ashley Support this podcast with a donation HERE Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Proverbs chapter 27 on Build Your Bible Habit. This is one of my favorite chapters in the book of
0:07.5	Proverbs. Did you know that the word friend occurs 53 times in 49 verses within the Old Testament,
0:15.1	and that five of those are in Proverbs 27? We could call this the friendship guide, but it also has additional instructions,
0:23.7	including financial advice at the end of the chapter. Let's get started.
0:29.1	Proverbs chapter 27, boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring
0:35.5	forth. Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth,
0:39.6	a stranger, and not thine own lips. A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, but a fool's wrath is
0:47.6	heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous, but who is able to stand before envy? Open rebuke is better than
0:57.6	secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
1:04.6	The full soul loatheth in honeycomb, but to the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
1:13.6	As a bird that wandereth from her nest,
1:20.1	so is a man that wandereth from his place. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart,
1:27.4	so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not, neither go into thy brother's house
1:30.6	in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
1:37.3	My son, be wise, and make my heart glad that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeeth the evil and hideeth himself,
1:47.4	but the simple pass on and are punished. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger,
1:53.7	and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice
2:00.1	rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
2:05.7	A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike. Whosoever
2:12.4	highteth her, hideeth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which beareth itself iron sharpeneth iron so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend
2:24.5	whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored as in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
2:38.9	Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of man are never satisfied. As the finding
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