Bible Verses About Proverbs: Miscellany of

Someone in the crowd answered, "Must prophets' fathers be special?" So it became an expression -"Is Sha'ul a prophet, too?"

as the old saying has it, 'Out of the wicked comes wickedness, but I will not lay a hand on you.'

The king of Isra'el has come on a campaign - after whom? Whom are you chasing? A dead dog! A single flea!

These words of Ish-Boshet's enraged Avner. "What am I," he shouted, "[that you treat me with such contempt]? A dog's head in Y'hudah? Till this moment I have shown only kindness to the house of Sha'ul your father, and to his brothers and to his friends; and I haven't handed you over to David. Yet you choose today to pick a fight with me over this woman!

Then she said, "In the old days they used to say, 'They will ask advice at Avel'; and that would end the discussion.

The king of Isra'el answered, "Tell him: 'He who is putting on his armor shouldn't boast as if he were taking it off!'"

For in vain is the net baited if any bird can see it;

"When those days come they will no longer say, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

"Human being, don't you have this proverb in the land of Isra'el, 'Time keeps passing, and none of the visions are fulfilled'?

Therefore tell them that Adonai ELOHIM says, 'I will put an end to that proverb; never again will they use it as a proverb in Isra'el.' Tell them, 'The time has come for the fulfillment of every vision.

Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb against you, "Like mother, like daughter."

"What does it mean, that you keep quoting this proverb in the land of Isra'el 'When parents eat sour grapes, their children's teeth are set on edge'?

"As I live," says Adonai ELOHIM, "I swear that you will never again quote this proverb in Isra'el.

Look, all lives belong to me - both the parent's life and the child's life are equally mine - so it is the person who sins, himself, who must die.

But the cohen will fare no better than the people; I will punish him for his ways and pay him back for his deeds.

"If you make a tree good, its fruit will be good; and if you make a tree bad, its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Then Yeshua said to them, "No doubt you will quote to me this proverb -- `"Doctor, cure yourself!" We've heard about all the things that have been going on over in K'far-Nachum; now do them here in your home town!'

Each tree is recognized by its own fruit -- figs aren't picked from thorn bushes, nor grapes from a briar patch.

Salt is excellent. But if even the salt becomes tasteless, what can be used to season it?

Natan’el answered him, “Natzeret? Can anything good come from there?” “Come and see,” Philip said to him.

Don’t be fooled. “Bad company ruins good character.”

Don’t delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he sows.