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Proverbs Chapter 27

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PROVERBS

Proverbs 27

1Boast not thy selfe of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
James 4:13, James 4:16, James 4:13, James 4:16, Luke 12:19
2Let another man prayse thee, and not thine owne mouth: a stranger, and not thine owne lips.
2 Corinthians 10:18, 2 Corinthians 10:18, Proverbs 25:27, Proverbs 25:27, 2 Corinthians 10:12
3A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
Daniel 3:19, Daniel 3:19, 1 John 3:12, Proverbs 17:12, 1 John 3:12
4Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
Proverbs 6:34, Proverbs 6:34, Proverbs 14:30, Proverbs 14:30, Acts 7:9
5Open rebuke is better then secret loue.
Proverbs 28:23, Proverbs 28:23, 1 Timothy 5:20, 1 Timothy 5:20, Galatians 2:14
6The wounds of a louer are faithful, and the kisses of an enemie are pleasant.
Psalms 141:5, Psalms 141:5, Revelation 3:19, Revelation 3:19, Proverbs 26:23
7The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.
Luke 15:16, Luke 15:17, Luke 15:16, Luke 15:17, Numbers 11:18
8As a bird that wandreth from her nest, so is a man that wandreth from his owne place.
Jonah 1:10, Jonah 1:17, Isaiah 16:2, Proverbs 21:16, Jonah 1:10
9As oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart, so doeth the sweetenes of a mans friend by hearty counsell.
Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 16:24, Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 16:24, Proverbs 16:21
10Thine owne friend and thy fathers friend forsake thou not: neither enter into thy brothers house in the day of thy calamitie: for better is a neighbour that is neere, then a brother farre off.
Proverbs 18:24, Proverbs 18:24, Luke 10:30, Luke 10:37, 1 Kings 12:6
11My sonne, be wise, and reioyce mine heart, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.
Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 23:15, Proverbs 23:16, Psalms 119:42
12A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.
Proverbs 22:3, Proverbs 22:3, Proverbs 18:10, Proverbs 18:10, 2 Peter 3:10
13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.
Proverbs 20:16, Proverbs 20:16, Proverbs 6:1, Proverbs 6:4, Proverbs 6:1
14He that prayseth his friend with a loude voyce, rising earely in the morning, it shall be counted to him as a curse.
2 Samuel 16:16, 2 Samuel 16:19, 2 Samuel 16:16, 2 Samuel 16:19, Acts 12:22
15A continual dropping in the day of raine, and a contentious woman are alike.
Proverbs 19:13, Proverbs 19:13, Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 21:9
16He that hideth her, hideth the winde, and she is as ye oyle in his right hand, that vttereth it selfe.
John 12:3, John 12:3
17Yron sharpeneth yron, so doeth man sharpen the face of his friend.
Hebrews 10:24, Hebrews 10:24, Proverbs 27:9, Proverbs 27:9, Job 4:3
18He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eate the fruite thereof: so he that waiteth vpon his master, shall come to honour.
2 Timothy 2:6, 2 Timothy 2:6, 1 Corinthians 9:7, 1 Corinthians 9:7, Song of Solomon 8:12
19As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
James 1:22, James 1:25, James 1:22, James 1:25, Psalms 33:15
20The graue and destruction can neuer be full, so the eyes of man can neuer be satisfied.
Ecclesiastes 1:8, Ecclesiastes 1:8, 1 John 2:16, Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:16
21As is the fining pot for siluer and the fornace for golde, so is euery man according to his dignitie.
Proverbs 17:3, Proverbs 17:3, Zechariah 13:9, Psalms 66:10, Zechariah 13:9
22Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.
Proverbs 23:35, Jeremiah 5:3, Proverbs 23:35, Jeremiah 5:3, Isaiah 1:5
23Be diligent to know ye state of thy flocke, and take heede to the heardes.
1 Peter 5:2, 1 Peter 5:2, John 21:15, John 21:17, John 21:15
24For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation.
Proverbs 23:5, Proverbs 23:5, Isaiah 9:7, 1 Timothy 6:17, 1 Timothy 6:18
25The hey discouereth it selfe, and the grasse appeareth, and the herbes of the mountaines are gathered.
Proverbs 10:5, Proverbs 10:5, Psalms 104:14, Psalms 104:14
26The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of the fielde.
Job 31:20, Job 31:20
27And let the milke of the goates be sufficient for thy foode, for the foode of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maydes.
Matthew 6:33, Matthew 6:33, Proverbs 30:8, Proverbs 30:9, Proverbs 30:8

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