Monday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold. 2Verse 2. The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all. 3Verse 3. The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences. 4Verse 4. The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life. 5Verse 5. Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them. 6Verse 6. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. 7Verse 7. The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender. 8Verse 8. He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. 9Verse 9. A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. 10Verse 10. Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease. 11Verse 11. He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend. 12Verse 12. The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless. 13Verse 13. The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!” 14Verse 14. The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it. 15Verse 15. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. 16Verse 16. Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty. 17Verse 17. Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise — apply your mind to my knowledge — 18Verse 18. for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips. 19Verse 19. So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today — yes, you. 20Verse 20. Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, 21Verse 21. to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?

1Verse 1. Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD. 2Verse 2. And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’” 3Verse 3. That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’” 4Verse 4. Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back. 5Verse 5. And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. 6Verse 6. Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before. 7Verse 7. Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.” 8Verse 8. But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place. 9Verse 9. For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’” 10Verse 10. So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.