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Proverbs 19:20 returns to teachability: Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days (v. 20). Wisdom is presented here as a lifetime path formed through receptive humility.
To listen to counsel and accept discipline means letting truth from outside oneself reshape one’s course. Counsel speaks to guidance; discipline speaks to correction. Both are essential because no one walks wisely by instinct alone.
The goal is that you may be wise the rest of your days. Wisdom is not merely for the moment of youth, but for the whole journey of life. This proverb emphasizes that teachability now becomes a harvest of wisdom later.
Used with permission from TheBibleSays.com.
You can access the original article here:Proverbs 19:20 Meaning
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