February 12, 2023
Proverbs 4:1-9 NRSV
4 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, 2 for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son with my father, tender and my mother’s favorite, 4 he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments and live. 5 Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth. 6 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. 7 The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight. 8 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. 9 She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”
1 Corinthians 1:26-30 NRSV
26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are, 29 so that no one might boast in the presence of God. 30 In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
