Proverbs
Guarding your heart
Solomon has passed along GREAT wisdom to the following generations. However, in these verses he’s reminding us that success in life is not about perfect behavior, but about the heart. For from it (the heart), all things flow! How’s your heart today?
Proverbs 4:20-27 20 My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words.21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart22 for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.24 Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.25 Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.26 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.27 Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
Genesis 6:5 5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
Jeremiah 17:9 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Matthew 15:18-19 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Proverbs 4:24-27 24 Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.25 Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.26 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.27 Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
Proverbs 4:23 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Matthew 12:35 35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
Ezekiel 36:27-28 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Psalms 51:10-12 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Isaiah 66:2 2 Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the LORD. “These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.
Philippians 4:6-7 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 11:28-30 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Proverbs 4:23 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Series Information
There are certain words of wisdom that stay with you for a lifetime that create plumb lines you live by. Proverbs is filled with such statements. Each speaker will be speaking out of a text in Proverbs that has guided them in life. Wisdom that can show you the way when all else seems unclear.