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 24:23, 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 28:21
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
- Proverbs 18:5
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
- Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 19:7
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor t…
- John 7:24
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
- Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
- James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, …
- Psalms 82:2
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
- Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness sh…
- 1 Timothy 5:20
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
- Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgmen…
- 1 Peter 1:17
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
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.