Verse Proverbs 16:7. _WHEN A MAN'S WAYS PLEASE THE LORD_] God is the guardian and defence of all that fear and love him; and it is truly astonishing to see how wondrously God works in their behalf, ra...
Goodness has power to charm and win even enemies to itself....
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
CHAPTER 16 TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11 1. The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. 2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth t...
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. WHEN A MAN'S WAYS PLEASE THE LORD, HE MAKETH EVEN HIS ENEMIES TO BE AT PEACE WITH HIM - so far as is for the glo...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
Our lives should please God. We should do the things that are right. We should respect God. God can cause our enemies to become our friends. This does not always happen immediately. First, we ourselv...
WHEN A MAN’S WAYS PLEASE THE LORD... — Comp. Genesis 26:28; 2 Chronicles 17:10....
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
_Peace. Thus Jacob, Joseph, Daniel, &c., were admired by their former enemies._...
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
WHEN A MAN'S WAYS PLEASE THE LORD,.... As they do when a man walks according to the rule of his word; when he walks as he has Christ for an example; when he walks after the Spirit, and not after the f...
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Ver. 7. When a man's ways please the Lord.] Sin is the only make-bait that sets God and man at difference. Now,...
_When a man's ways please the Lord_ The best way to have our enemies reconciled unto us, is for us first to be reconciled unto God; for such is the love which the Lord hath to pious and virtuous perso...
V. 7. WHEN A MAN'S WAYS PLEASE THE LORD, when Jehovah finds that a person's conduct, the objects which he has in mind, and the means which he uses to accomplish them, are in accordance with His will,...
By disposing their hearts to kindness towards him....
Proverbs 16:7 mans H376 ways H1870 please H7521 (H8800) LORD H3068 enemies H341 (H8802) peace H7999 ...
ALL IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH YHWH'S PURPOSES, WITH THE CONSEQUENCE THAT THE PROUD WILL BE PUNISHED, WHILST THOSE WHO FEAR YHWH WILL DEPART FROM EVIL AND FIND THAT BOTH YHWH AND THEIR ENEMIES ARE AT PEACE...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
_When a man’s ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him._ OUR WAYS These words contain two blessed fruits of a gracious conversation. The one more immediate and direct...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:1 The comparison between the PLANS of a man’s HEART (vv. Proverbs 16:1,...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 16:7_ PLEASING GOD I. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN MEN’S WAYS DO NOT PLEASE THE LORD. _The ways of the ungodly do not at any time please the Lord_. Because they have no sympathy...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
1 John 3:22; Acts 9:1; Acts 9:19; Acts 9:2; Acts 9:20;...