To accompany your Come Follow Me study for August 29-September 4
In addition to reading the suggested chapters from Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, you may enjoy
- The video Come Follow Me 2022 LDS Proverbs & Ecclesiastes | A Word to the Wise at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BJVT2e_z0w
- Reading the related material from the Institute student manual at https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/old-testament-student-manual-kings-malachi/chapter-2?lang=eng
- Reading any or all of the other chapters from Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, especially Proverbs, where there are some great and familiar scriptural gems.
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Points to Ponder in Proverbs 1-4; 15-16; 22; 31; Ecclesiastes 1-3; 11-12
1. Which passage in Proverbs 1 do you feel best sums up the central message of the entire book?
2. Which passage in Proverbs 1 in essence says, “Listen to your parents”?
3. Where in Proverbs 1 does it basically say, “Even animals are smart enough not to walk into a trap that they see you set, but greedy sinners are so foolish they set traps for themselves”?
4. Where in Proverbs 2 does it say that if you want to understand the scriptures as much as you want to eat when you are hungry, you’ll understand them.
5. What two verse passage in Proverbs 2 demonstrates both synonymous and antithetic parallelism?
6. What verse in Proverbs 3 assures us that the righteous may enjoy personal revelation?
7. What verse in Proverbs 3 was quoted or paraphrased by the Lord in the Word of Wisdom?
8. What verses in Proverbs 3 tell us that the payment of tithing brings even material blessings?
9. What passage in Proverbs 3 best warns us against sins of omission?
10. What passage in Proverbs 3 assures us that both God and mortal parents need to discipline their children?
11. What passage in Proverbs 4 tells us what the most important possible acquisition is?
12. Which passage in Proverbs 4 tells us that moral perfection is eventually possible but isn’t achieved all at once?
13. What passage in Proverbs 15 contains classic counsel about how to avoid arguments?
14. Which passage in Proverbs 15 says essentially the same thing as 1 Nephi 16:2, which tells us that “the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center”?
15. Which passage in Proverbs 16 tells us that self-righteousness is a near-universal human failing?
16. Which passage in Proverbs 16 reminds us that pacific poverty is preferable to rancorous riches?
17. Where in Proverbs 16 does it say that to control your own temper is a greater achievement than to win a military battle?
18. What is the clearest scriptural justification for family home evening to be found in Proverbs 22?
19. What verse in Proverbs 22 tells us that lazy people can invent all kinds of silly reasons not to look for work?
20. Which verse in Proverbs 31 best sums up the value of a good wife?
21. What passage in Ecclesiastes 3 would be most likely to be quoted in a sermon on eternal marriage?
22. What oft-quoted passage in Ecclesiastes 11 tells us essentially that “what goes around comes around”?
23. What passage in Ecclesiastes 12 suggests that the author understood that man had a premortal existence?
24. Which verse in Ecclesiastes 12 do you think best summarizes the most useful counsel in the book of Ecclesiastes?
Possible Answers to Points to Ponder in Proverbs 1-4; 15-16; 22; 31; Ecclesiastes 1-3; 11-12
1. Which passage in Proverbs 1 do you feel best sums up the central message of the entire book?
Possibly 1:7: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
2. Which passage in Proverbs 2 in essence says, “Listen to your parents”?
1:8
3. Where in Proverbs 1 does it basically say, “Even animals are smart enough not to walk into a trap that they see you set, but greedy sinners are so foolish they set traps for themselves”?
1:10-19
4. Where in Proverbs 2 does it say that if you want to understand the scriptures as much as you want to eat when you are hungry, you’ll understand them.
2:3-5
5. What two verse passage in Proverbs 2 demonstrates both synonymous and antithetic parallelism?
2:21-22
6. What verse in Proverbs 3 assures us that the righteous may enjoy personal revelation?
3:6
7. What verse in Proverbs 3 was quoted or paraphrased by the Lord in the Word of Wisdom?
3:8
8. What verses in Proverbs 3 tell us that the payment of tithing brings even material blessings?
3:9-10
9. What passage in Proverbs 3 best warns us against sins of omission?
Probably 3:27-28
10. What passage in Proverbs 3 assures us that both God and mortal parents need to discipline their children?
3:12
11. What passage in Proverbs 4 tells us what the most important possible acquisition is?
4:7
12. Which passage in Proverbs 4 tells us that moral perfection is eventually possible but isn’t achieved all at once?
4:18
13. What passage in Proverbs 15 contains classic counsel about how to avoid arguments?
15:1
14. Which passage in Proverbs 15 says essentially the same thing as 1 Nephi 16:2, which tells us that “the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center”?
15:10
15. Which passage in Proverbs 16 tells us that self-righteousness is a near-universal human failing?
16:2
16. Which passage in Proverbs 16 reminds us that pacific poverty is preferable to rancorous riches?
16:8
17. Where in Proverbs 16 does it say that to control your own temper is a greater achievement than to win a military battle?
16:32
18. What is the clearest scriptural justification for family home evening to be found in Proverbs 22?
Probably 22:6
19. What verse in Proverbs 22 tells us that lazy people can invent all kinds of silly reasons not to look for work?
22:13
20. Which verse in Proverbs 31 best sums up the value of a good wife?
Probably 31:10
21. What passage in Ecclesiastes 3 would be most likely to be quoted in a sermon on eternal marriage?
3:14
22. What oft-quoted passage in Ecclesiastes 11 tells us essentially that “what goes around comes around”?
11:1
23. What passage in Ecclesiastes 12 suggests that the author understood that man had a premortal existence?
12:7
24. Which verse in Ecclesiastes 12 do you think best summarizes the most useful counsel in the book of Ecclesiastes?
Most people would pick 12:13.