Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Proverbs 10:17, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 2 Peter 1:5
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- Proverbs 15:10
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
- Proverbs 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- Luke 11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
- Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
- Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
- Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- Matthew 7:24
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
- Proverbs 29:1
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Proverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
More to meet God in Proverbs
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.