“Wisdom And Discouraging Words” Lesson Text: Proverbs 18 – 20: Series: Wisdom From Above: Adult Quarterly Sunday School Fall Quarter 2005 September, October, November:

Key Verse: Proverbs 18:21:

King James Translation; “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

Interlinear Translation: “Death and life are in the hand of the tongue, and those loving it shall eat its fruit.”

Strong’s Concordance Translation: “DEATH = concretely the dead, their place or state, hades, figuratively pestilence, ruin. AND LIFE = raw flesh, living thing, age, alive, appetite, congregation, lively, maintenance, be old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop. ARE IN THE POWER = a hand the open one indicating power, means, direction, service, stay, draw with strength, work. OF THE TONGUE = the instrument of licking, eating or speech and figuratively speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water, babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, wedge. AND THEY THAT LOVE IT = to have affection for sexually or otherwise, beloved, loved, lovely, lover, like, friend. SHALL EAT = burn up, consume, devour, dine, eater, eat up, feed with, food. THE FRUIT THEREOF = bough, bear fruit, bring forth, cause to be, fruitful, grow, increase.

Lesson Focus: Proverbs 18:2, 13-21:

V2: The Price.

V13: The Proof.

V14: The Persistent.

V15: The Prudent.

V16: The Practice.

V17: The Position.

V18: The Parad.

V19: The Partition.

V20: The Positive.

V21: The Power.

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