It was my brother who taught me to start reading the bible by reading Proverbs first. Start on a month with 31 days, because there are 31 chapters in the Book of Proverbs. “A chapter a day,” he said. He also said, “Proverbs were the laws of the bible.” So the laws of God, I thought?

He explain that the son of King David wrote Proverbs after the Book of Psalms which is the story of King David, and his sufferings. It was said that King David drowned in his own tears, because he suffered so much.

Let us read the first Chapter of the Book of Proverbs. At the end we can discuss it more.

Proverbs 1

King James Version

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

² To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

³ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

⁴ To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

⁵ A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

⁶ To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

⁹ For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

¹³ We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

¹⁸ And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

²⁰ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

²¹ She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

²³ Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

²⁵ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

²⁷ When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

²⁹ For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

³⁰ They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

³² For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

³³ But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Amen

The first chapter of book of Proverbs will first tell you who wrote it, Solomon, Son of King David. King David if you don’t know, he is the man who killed the Giant Goliath with a sling shot and a rock. That guy.

So we know who wrote it, but who is talking in the scriptures? It is wisdom that is talking. Wisdom is telling us that we can do all the sinful things, and live our way of life, and we will end up in despair. Fear the Lord and sleep quietly in the wake of evil, because you are protected by the Lord our God.

I used to think fearing the Lord was that he was going to physicallyal hurt me if I did something wrong. Fearing the Lord is loving the Lord, because you love the Lord so much, you fear that you will lose the Lord. The Lord loves me so much, I don’t even see all of the Lord’s blessings, and I fear that I will lose them.

So to gain knowledge is to fear the Lord. If you follow what wisdom said, fear the Lord and gain knowledge. One who does not fear the Lord lacks discipline.

The first Chapter of Proverbs talks about fearing the Lord to gain knowledge. One who does not fear the Lord lacks discipline according to wisdom. These are the rules or Proverbs of the Bible.

Remember Religion is a way of life. You live your life according to the religious belief. We are taught by our parents. We are taught what wisdom teaches us in this first chapter. It’s simple, don’t run around acting like a fool. Love, be kind, and don’t dig up dead people. Don’t steal their belongings they were buried with either. Be disciplined and do good as the Lord our God asks of us. Be kind to all living creatures. Treat people like you want to be treated, with respect. Fear that you don’t do all of the above. That the Lord will not be there when you seek the Lord.

Proverbs Chapter 1… DAY 1 DAILY READING. Day 2 Proverbs Chapter 2.

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your homey Fredie Sac