Bonnie Van Bruggen's Highlights
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 27:15-16 ESV
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand.
Feb 11
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 27:14 ESV
Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
Feb 11
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 27:10 ESV
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
Feb 11
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 27:4 ESV
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Feb 11
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 27:2 ESV
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Feb 11
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 26:24 ESV
Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;
Feb 10
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 26:2 ESV
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.
Feb 10
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:27-28 ESV
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory. A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:25 ESV
Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:24 ESV
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:22 ESV
for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:21 ESV
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:17 ESV
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:13 ESV
Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:11 ESV
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:9 ESV
Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another's secret,
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 25:2 ESV
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Feb 9
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 24:33-34 ESV
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Feb 8
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 24:28 ESV
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Feb 8
Bonnie Van Bruggen
highlighted Proverbs 24:25 ESV
but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them.
Feb 8