proverbs 22

17Listen (consent and submit) to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;
18For it will be pleasant if you keep them in your mind [believing them]; your lips will be accustomed to [confessing] them.
19So that your trust (belief, reliance, support, and confidence) may be in the Lord, I have made known these things to you today, even to you.
20Have I not written to you [long ago] excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
21To make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?(D)




It's really amazing to me how the word of God all fits together............. In God's Divine wisdom he even mapped out how it's all put together!






12The eyes of the Lord keep guard over knowledge and him who has it, but He overthrows the words of the treacherous. (not only do people who love the Lord not fall into the ditch of the deep pit of sluggardly fearful women, women of God overthrow the deep ditch of the loose woman)
13The sluggard says, There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets! (when we say we are fearful we might as well admit we are slothful, they are one in the same. Because if we took the time to hear the words of the one who loves us we would not be afraid) Perfect love casts out fear, and when we abide in the vine of God it puts to flight fear.
14The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit [for ensnaring wild animals]; he with whom the Lord is indignant and who is abhorrent to Him will fall into it. (that's who controlling Jezebel is, that's the spirit of fear........ to control others to save us because we don't want salvation that comes from the Lord)
15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him. (So correction and reproof are a way of life and we need to look to God all the time so we stay on the right path)