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 21:20, 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.
- Matthew 25:3
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
- Psalms 112:3
Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
- Ecclesiastes 5:19
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labou…
- Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
- Proverbs 15:6
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
- Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
- Psalms 23:5
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
- Luke 15:14
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
- Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
- Luke 16:1
And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods…
- Luke 6:45
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth for…
- Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
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.