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Proverbs 3:8

Sometimes our wrong ideas cause illnesses. For example, excess alcohol will make us ill. But God’s wisdom does not hurt us. God is kind to us and he helps us. He cares about our bodies. He also cares about our spirits. Nobody will be ill in heaven (Revelation 21:4).

The wisdom that we need is God’s wisdom.

v9 Use your wealth to give honour to God.

Give him the first part of your harvest.

v10 Then your harvest will be vast.

Your new wine will be plentiful.

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See also Proverbs 3:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 3:8. _IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL_] We need not puzzle ourselves to find out what we may suppose to be a more _delicate_ meaning for the original word שר _shor_ than _navel_; for I...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NAVEL - The central region of the body is taken as the representative of all the vital organs. For “health” we should read healing, or, as in the marg. There is probably a reference to the local appli...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The call and promise of wisdom (Proverbs 3:1)_ 2. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Proverbs 3:11) 3. Promise and instruction (Proverbs 3:21)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FOURTH Discourse. The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction (_torah),_ and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HEALTH. healing. Occurs only here. NAVEL. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part) for the whole body (App-6). But Septuagint and Syriac, following. different spelling, read "body". MARROW. mo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Fourth Address. Chap. Proverbs 3:1-10 Be obedient to my instruction, so shalt thou live long and prosper (Proverbs 3:1). Trust, not in thyself, but in God (Proverbs 3:5). Seek His direction ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _health_ By an eternal law the moral condition and the physical are linked together; the _mens sana_promotes the _corpus sanum_. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HEALTH TO THY NAVEL— Many expositors, after the LXX, render this, _It shall be health to thy flesh,_ or _to thy body,_ instead of _thy navel:_ but the learned Schultens has shewn that the word is prop...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER 3 TEXT Proverbs 3:1-12 1. My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: 2. For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee. 3. Let not kind...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL, AND MARROW TO THY BONES - "it," namely, the obedient "fear of the Lord" just described (). Plasters and em...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE AND OF CHASTISEMENT The first and third divisions, 1-10, 21-35, are exhortations to good conduct and promises of consequent blessing. The second, 11-20, declares the profit...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    For navel read 'flesh,' as at Proverbs 4:22. This change only requires the addition of a single letter, and it gives us the pair,' flesh and bones,' which in biblical language make up the body (Genesi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NAVEL. — As being the centre, and so the most important part of the body. (Comp. the epithet applied to Delphi, “navel of the earth.”) MARROW. — Literally, _watering: i.e.,_ refreshing. (Comp. Job 21...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רִ֭פְאוּת תְּהִ֣י לְ שָׁרֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝ שִׁקּ֗וּי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 4 THE EARTHLY REWARDS OF WISDOM Proverbs 3:1 THE general teaching of these nine introductory Chapter s is that the "ways of Wisdom are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." We are taug...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Prove

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE RESULTS OF TRUSTING JEHOVAH Proverbs 3:1-12 How replete with helpful instruction on the policy of life is this paragraph! The _young_ of both sexes are invited to be merciful in their judgments...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    As the former address had to do with the search for wisdom, this, in view of the value of if is an appeal to cultivate wisdom. The appeal consists of a declaration of its essence (verses Pro 3:1-10),...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    It shall be health to thy (e) navel, and marrow to thy bones. (e) By this part he comprehends the whole body, as by health he means all the benefits promised in the law both corporal and spiritual....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Bones. Thou shalt enjoy perfect health._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL,.... That part of the body which is the knot of the intestines; and may be put for the bowels and inward parts, which being sound, the body is in health; and these may...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Ver. 8. _It shall be health to thy navel._] That is, Thou shalt be in good plight both for the outward and inward man: Thy bones full of marr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Be not wise in thine own eyes_ Be not puffed up with a vain conceit of thine own wisdom, as if that were sufficient for the conduct of all thine affairs, without direction and assistance from God, or...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    It shall be health to thy navel, considered as the center of the entire body, AND MARROW TO THY BONES, refreshing the entire organism with vigor and strength; for such is the effect of a good conscien...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HEALTH: _ Heb._ medicine MARROW: _ Heb._ watering, or moistening...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-12 There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO THY NAVEL, i.e. to thy body, which is signified by the navel, which is a noble and useful part of the body, by which the infant receives nourishment in the womb, and which is the ligament or bond b...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 3:8 health H7500 flesh H8270 strength H8250 bones H6106 shall - Proverbs 4:22,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOLLOWED BY THE REQUIREMENT TO TRUST IN YHWH, TO FEAR YHWH AND TO HONOUR YHWH (PROVERBS 3:1). Solomon here speaks of wisdom and understanding in terms of ‘my torah -- my comma...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 3:7 I. The text may be paraphrased and expanded thus: God has taught you by various ways by your own experience and that of others; above all, by the warnings of conscience and the voice of r...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The power of true wisdom to make men both blessed and a blessing. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Those who have a continual regard to God's precepts and put themselves unde...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 3:2. _Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee._ The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. T...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments._ USEFUL PRECEPTS AND INSPIRING MOTIVES I. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1). Int...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 3:8. NAVEL, “body” or “muscles.” MARROW, literally “refreshing,” “moistening,” in contrast to the condition described in Psalms 32:3. PROVERBS 3:11. DESPITE NOT, or “loathe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 3:1 4. _Fourth admonitory discourse. _The third chapter introduces us to a group of admonitions, and the first of these (Proverbs 3:1) forms the fourth admonitory discourse of the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 3 continues to My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee (Proverbs 3:1-2). Now these are the three. And...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 16:4; Ezekiel 16:5; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 30:12; Jeremiah 30:13

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    LEST WE FORGET Proverbs 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Proverbs speaks several times of the danger of forgetting God and His Commandments. We are firmly convinced that herein is a danger that w...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Navel — To thy body, which is signified by one part of it. Marrow — Which is the nourishment and strength of the bones....

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