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 22:18, 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.
- Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hos…
- Proverbs 2:10
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
- Proverbs 8:6
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
- Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
- Psalms 119:103
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- John 7:38
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
- Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
- Psalms 119:13
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
- Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
- Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
- Psalms 119:171
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
- Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
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.