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 12:15, 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 3:7
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
- Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
- Proverbs 14:16
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
- Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
- Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
- Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
- Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
- Proverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
- Proverbs 1:5
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
- Galatians 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
- Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
- Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
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.