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 8:13, 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.
- Psalms 97:10
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
- 1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
- Proverbs 4:24
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
- 1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the…
- Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph…
- Psalms 119:128
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- Psalms 5:4
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
- Proverbs 6:12
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
- Proverbs 6:16
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
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.