[:en]Thoughts from Proverbs 22[:]

[:en]DO’S

  1. Have a good name (v. 1)
  2. Be prudent (v. 3)
  3. Be humble and fear the Lord (v. 4)
  4. Train a child and discipline him (v. 6, 15)
  5. Share food with the poor (v. 9)
  6. Have a pure heart with gracious speech (v. 11)
  7. Keep away from the adulteress (v. 14)
  8. Trust in the Lord (v.19)

DON’TS

  1. Keep on borrowing (v. 7)
  2. Sow wicknedness (v. 8)
  3. Be with the company of mockers (v. 10)
  4. Be unfaithful (v. 12)
  5. Oppress the poor to increase your wealth (v. 16)
  6. Exploit the poor and crush the needy (v. 22)
  7. Make friends with a hot tempered  man (v. 24a)
  8. Associate with easily angered man (v. 24b)
  9. Strike hands in pledge or put up security for debts (v. 26)
  10. Move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefather (v.  28)

“Humility and the fear of the Lord bring wealth and honor and life” (v. 4)

“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not turn from it” (v. 6)[:]