Sharpened by Iron | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 23, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. |
| 0:05.2 | Proverbs 2717. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.0 | Sharpened by iron was written by Leslie Coe and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.6 | Proverbs chapter 27 verses 17 through 27 |
| 0:26.6 | As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. |
| 0:32.6 | The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, |
| 0:35.6 | and whoever protects their master will be honored. |
| 0:39.7 | As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart. Death and destruction are never |
| 0:46.7 | satisfied, and neither are human eyes. The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but |
| 0:54.0 | people are tested by their praise. |
| 0:56.7 | Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove |
| 1:02.4 | their folly from them. Be sure to know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention |
| 1:08.1 | to your herds, for riches do not endure forever. |
| 1:12.6 | And a crown is not secure for all generations. |
| 1:16.0 | When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in, |
| 1:21.8 | the lambs will provide you with clothing and the goats with the price of a field. |
| 1:26.6 | You will have plenty of goat's milk to feed your |
| 1:28.9 | family and to nourish your female servants. Sharpened by Iron, written by Leslie Co. Louise, a |
| 1:40.2 | project manager, regretted taking on the freelance job. Both the client and designer were |
| 1:45.7 | testing her patients. Why is it so difficult, she wondered. Why can't these people get it together? |
| 1:52.5 | Weeks later, as she read Proverbs 27, verse 17 stood out. Iron sharpens iron. You can't file down rough edges with something soft like silk, she told her |
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