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 12:11, 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.
- Proverbs 28:19
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
- Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
- Psalms 128:2
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
- Ephesians 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that need…
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8
Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
- Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- Proverbs 7:7
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
- Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt…
- Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
- Titus 1:10
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
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.