Tag: Proverbs

A popular saying, regarded as conveying wisdom. Scripture records a great number of didactic proverbs and also preserves some popular sayings.

Proverbs – Biblehub.com Proverbs topical index

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  • Matthias – Scripture fulfilled in Jerusalem – מַתַּתְיָה

    Choosing Matthias And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Acts 1:26 NASB20 Matthias fills a position of an Apostle from off the bench (so to speak) as a substitute for Judas who had betrayed Christ and then took his own life. This new Twelfth Apostle gets little mention as…

    painting of Peter casting lots to choose between Justus and Matthias
  • yāḏaʿ yāḏaʿ yāḏaʿ – Surely you know: יָדַע

    Whatever.. Yada, yada, yada.. Someone tried to share some wisdom with you, perhaps a Proverb or something, and you stop them short. You THINK you understand OR more likely there is NO WAY that you can ever understand. Really, they speak a language you DON”T understand, perhaps Yiddish, or God-forgive, Hebrew. yāḏaʿ (yaw-dah’) – יָדַע…

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  • Therefore encourage one another, members of Christ

    How do your encourage one another? Beloved brother in Christ, dear sister in our Lord — encourage one another. This is the message of the Apostle Paul to the Church. And recall Jesus’ new Commandment to ‘Love one another as I have loved you. Agape love must be both active and personal in the believer…

    that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.