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Proverbs: A Bible Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

The primary purpose for the book of Proverbs is to help people become wise through fearing the Lord. This fear is a reverence for God that determines how we live. And this reverence for God should occur because of our relationship with Him. The phrase, “the fear of the Lord,” occurs more times in Proverbs than anywhere else in the Old Testament. Through its major parts, through its sections and...

mutually contradictory, which are deliberately placed side by side and offer a meaning greater than the sum of the parts. The larger context of 10:1 through 31:31 is what precedes them in Proverbs 1 through 9. This foundation of wisdom and righteousness guides our reading of the rest of the book. When we read, for example, A bribe is a charm to the one who gives it; wherever he turns, he succeeds (17:8), the immediate context (see 17:3–5, 15) and the calls to righteousness in Proverbs 1 through 9
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