September 16: Proverbs 21–22; Titus 1:5–16; Psalm 71; Proverbs 23:22–25

Old Testament: Proverbs 21–22 Proverbs 21–22 (Listen) 21   The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD;<br />    he turns it wherever he will.<br />2   Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,<br />    but the LORD weighs the heart.<br />3   To do righteousness and justice<br />    is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.<br />4   Haughty eyes and a proud heart,<br />    the lamp1 of the wicked, are sin.<br />5   The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,<br />    but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.<br />6   The getting of treasures by a lying tongue<br />    is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.2<br />7   The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,<br />    because they refuse to do what is just.<br />8   The way of the guilty is crooked,<br />    but the conduct of the pure is upright.<br />9   It is better to live in a corner of the housetop<br />    than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.<br />