STUDY NUMBER SIX – PROVERBS 2:1-15

Proverbs 2:1-15

v. 1  My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
v. 2  turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
v. 3  and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
v. 4  and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
v. 5  then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
v. 6  For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
v. 7  He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
v. 8  for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
v. 9  Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.
v. 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
v. 11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
v. 12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
v. 13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
v. 14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
v. 15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

QUESTIONS:

1.  Read Proverbs 2:1-15 and in your own words pull out the main thought of this passage.

2.  Outline the three “if” clauses in verses 1-4.
 
3.  What two things will result from pursing wisdom, according to verse 5?
 
4.  What does the Lord do for us, according to verse 6?

5.  What does the Lord do for his faithful ones, according to verse 8?
 
6.  Describe the good path, according to verse 9.
 
7.  What will wisdom do for us, according to verse 12?
 
8.  Describe the wicked men in verses 12-15.
 
9.  Which verse in the study has meant the most to you?
 
10.  What lesson have you learned from this study?

LESSONS FROM THE PASSAGE:

What are some of the lessons we can learn from this particular study?

LESSON #1:  It is in the written Word, the Bible, and the Living Word, Christ, that we find the wisdom of God.

LESSON #2:  If we would have His wisdom, “we must accept His words and store up His commands within us.”

LESSON #3:  Choice is involved in accepting, turning, and applying.

LESSON #4:  Desire, humility, and decision are all involved in the acquisition of wisdom.

LESSON #5:  We must “call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding.”

LESSON #6:  If we would gain wisdom, we must “look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure.”

LESSON #7:  It is “the Lord [who] gives wisdom, and from His mouth comes knowledge and understanding.”

LESSON #8:  When we have wisdom “we will understand what is right and just and fair.”

LESSON #9:  “Wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.”

LESSON #10:  The fake, the superficial, and the shallow will depart with the coming of God’s wisdom.

LESSON #11:  Wisdom protects us from the “wicked . . . whose words are perverse, who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, and whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.”

LESSON #12:  The walk of the wicked is “crooked” and their ways are “devious.”

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