Proverbs 4:23

Staying The Course

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For they are life to those who find them,
And healing and health to all their flesh.
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Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.
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Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth,
And put devious lips far from you.

Issues of Life

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Wellspring of Life

Springs Of Life

Proverbs 4:7

“The beginning of wisdom is: Get [skillful and godly] wisdom [it is preeminent]!
And with all your acquiring, get understanding [actively seek spiritual discernment, mature comprehension, and logical interpretation].

Matthew 12:34-35

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Luke 6:45

The [intrinsically] good man produces what is good and honorable and moral out of the good treasure [stored] in his heart; and the [intrinsically] evil man produces what is wicked and depraved out of the evil [in his heart]; for his mouth speaks from the overflow of his heart.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is deceitful above all things
And it is extremely sick;
Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts and plans, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slanders (verbal abuse, irreverent speech, blaspheming).

Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only pay attention and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your grandchildren [impressing these things on their mind and penetrating their heart with these truths]—

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart;
Test me and know my anxious thoughts;

Proverbs 3:21

My son, let them not escape from your sight,
But keep sound wisdom and discretion,

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious and good woman attains honor,
And ruthless men attain riches [but not respect].

Proverbs 13:3

The one who guards his mouth [thinking before he speaks] protects his life;
The one who opens his lips wide [and chatters without thinking] comes to ruin.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate [for their lack of honor and their wrong-doing traps them];
He who guards himself [with godly wisdom] will be far from them and avoid the consequences they suffer.

Proverbs 23:19

Listen, my son, and be wise,
And direct your heart in the way [of the Lord].

Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts confidently in his own heart is a [dull, thickheaded] fool,
But he who walks in [skillful and godly] wisdom will be rescued.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being kept and hoarded by their owner to his own misery.

Mark 7:21-23

For from within, [that is] out the heart of men, come base and malevolent thoughts and schemes, acts of sexual immorality, thefts, murders, adulteries,

Mark 14:38

Keep [actively] watching and praying so that you do not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

James 1:14-15

But each one is tempted when he is dragged away, enticed and baited [to commit sin] by his own [worldly] desire (lust, passion).