Thematic Bible
Proverbs 20:1 (show verse)
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever errs thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:2 (show verse)
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.
Proverbs 20:3 (show verse)
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.
Proverbs 20:4 (show verse)
The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:5 (show verse)
Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs 20:6 (show verse)
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs 20:7 (show verse)
A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.
Proverbs 20:8 (show verse)
A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 20:9 (show verse)
Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?
Proverbs 20:10 (show verse)
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
Proverbs 20:11 (show verse)
Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Proverbs 20:12 (show verse)
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them.
Proverbs 20:13 (show verse)
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.
Proverbs 20:14 (show verse)
It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 20:15 (show verse)
There is gold, and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs 20:16 (show verse)
Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.
Proverbs 20:17 (show verse)
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 20:18 (show verse)
Every purpose is established by counsel, and by wise guidance make thou war.
Proverbs 20:19 (show verse)
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.
Proverbs 20:20 (show verse)
He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 20:21 (show verse)
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 20:22 (show verse)
Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.
Proverbs 20:23 (show verse)
Diverse weights are an abomination to LORD, and a FALSE balance is not good.
Proverbs 20:24 (show verse)
A man's goings are of LORD, how then can man understand his way?
Proverbs 20:25 (show verse)
It is a snare to a man to say rashly, [It is] holy. And to make inquiry after vows.
Proverbs 20:26 (show verse)
A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
Proverbs 20:27 (show verse)
The spirit of man is the lamp of LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
Proverbs 20:28 (show verse)
Kindness and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by kindness.
Proverbs 20:29 (show verse)
The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.
Proverbs 20:30 (show verse)
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil, and strokes, the innermost parts.