Sermons on Proverbs 11:22

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion.
Proverbs 11:22 · Berean Standard Bible (public domain).World English Bible (public domain).King James Version (public domain in the US).American Standard Version, 1901 (public domain). · Read Proverbs 11

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JUST DOWN THE ROAD
Ed Young Jr., 2026-10-04

Is there a pig somewhere? Proverbs 11, 22, like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no, say it with me, discretion. You're a McLaren. You are a McLaren. And you won't really know you're a McLaren until you give the keys to Christ, but you're handmade. It took over 250 hours to make this car. Ladies, you're a McLaren. Would you drive a McLaren? with the doors open. advertising everything which should be reserved for the covenant of marriage because what you show is who you will attract. And if you show revealing things, if you show the skin and dress in this provocative, sexy way, you're going to recruit people, and that's all they see. And the last time I checked, those aren't the people you want. They're not the people who are going to drive the McLaren the way you want it driven. It's just not going to happen. I don't know the answer to all of this, ladies. Where do faith and fashion meet and collide? …

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Womanhood and The Wisdom of God
David Platt, 2026-08-26

… than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 11, 24. Even the physically beautiful beautiful woman who is not wise. Proverbs 11, 22 says, like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion. So after all these warnings in Proverbs, we get to the end and we have a mom saying to her son, what are you doing? Verse 10, an excellent wife who can find. And then she goes on to describe her. So the message of Proverbs 31 is clear for single men. pray for and seek out a Christ-like wife. In the words of Proverbs 19, 14, house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord. And in this passage, God is saying, single men, seek a Christ-like wife. It's the word of God. Seek her out, like take the initiative. Unless the Lord has called you to singleness in a 1 Corinthians 7 kind of way, similar to the Apostle Paul, Work to find an excellent wife. …

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… I love this verse. As a ring of gold in a swine snout. Now those are words fitly spoken, aren't they? So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Isn't that a great way to put it? Don't say that to her the next time you see her, but remember, chapter 23 of Proverbs in verse 2, here are other words that some of us can identify with. Let's take 23, 1 and 2. When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you. Put a knife to your throat if you're a man given a great appetite. I love that. That's a great way to diet. It'll stop eating every time. Look at 25, 19. Same book, 25, 19. like a bad tooth at an unsteady foot is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble ever had a bad tooth unpredictable it would go bad on you at some times and it would be okay at other times or you ever had a foot that went out of joint or it was unsteady on a slippery day that's the way it is when you trust in a faithless person you think you can rely on them and they slip out from under you. You think you can count on them, but you can't. They go bad on you. …

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