Lesson for March 4, 2012: Wisdom’s Origin (Proverbs 8)

Lesson for March 4, 2012: Wisdom’s Origin (Proverbs 8)

Proverbs 8 King James Version (KJV)

Proverbs 8

 ¹Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
 ²She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
 ³She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
 ⁴Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
 ⁵O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
 ⁶Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
 ⁷For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
 ⁸All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
 ⁹They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
 ¹⁰Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
 ¹¹For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
 ¹²I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
 ¹³The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
 ¹⁴Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
 ¹⁵By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
 ¹⁶By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
 ¹⁷I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
 ¹⁸Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
 ¹⁹My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
 ²⁰I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
 ²¹That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
 ²²The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
 ²³I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
 ²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
 ²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
 ²⁶While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
 ²⁷When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
 ²⁸When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
 ²⁹When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
 ³⁰Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
 ³¹Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
 ³²Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
 ³³Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
 ³⁴Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
 ³⁵For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
 ³⁶But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

The fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:21-23

King James Version (KJV)

 ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
 ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Feb. 26, 2012: Bearing the Fruit of Redemption (Galatians 5:2–6:18)

Lesson for Feb. 26, 2012: Bearing the Fruit of Redemption (Galatians 5:2–6:18)

Galatians 5:22-26

King James Version (KJV)

 ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
 ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
 ²⁴And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
 ²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
 ²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:1-10

King James Version (KJV)

Galatians 6

 ¹Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
 ²Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
 ³For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
 ⁴But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
 ⁵For every man shall bear his own burden.
 ⁶Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
 ⁷Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
 ⁸For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
 ⁹And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
 ¹⁰As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Lesson for Feb. 19, 2012: Inheriting Abraham’s Promise (Galatians 3:15–5:1)

http://christianstandard.com/2012/02/lesson-for-feb-19-2012-inheriting-abraham%E2%80%99s-promise-galatians-315-51/

Galatians 3:1-15

Galatians 3:1-15

King James Version (KJV)

Galatians 3

 ¹O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
 ²This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
 ³Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
 ⁴Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
 ⁵He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
 ⁶Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
 ⁷Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
 ⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
 ⁹So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
 ¹⁰For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
 ¹¹But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
 ¹²And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
 ¹³Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
 ¹⁴That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
 ¹⁵Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Understanding the Presence of the Spirit

http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/IVP-NT/Gal/Understanding-Presence-Spirit