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 3:2, 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.
- Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
- Proverbs 4:10
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
- Psalms 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
- Psalms 128:6
Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
- Proverbs 9:11
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
- Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
- Psalms 21:4
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
- Psalms 119:165
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
- Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
- Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
- Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
- Psalms 34:11
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
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.