Proverbs: Emotions
1. Give appropriate care to the emotions you inspire.
-Do you increase quarrels? (10:12, 15:1, 16:14, Deescalate).
-Do you forget God’s emotions? (15:9).
-Do you tire others? (25:14, 25:17).
-Do you stir up anger unnecessarily? (25:23, 27:14, 15:18, 19:11, 20:3).
-As a gift and responsibility, certain relationship deserve special attention. (10:1, 15:20 , 17:25, 19:26, 20:20, 23:24, 23:25, 27:11).
2. Consider that which adds sorrow. (10:22, 10:24, 10:28).
3. Emotional responses are rightly or wrongly ordered.
-Do you have “right revulsion”? (10:26, 11:6, 12:8, 12:12, 13:5).
-Do you have right happiness? (12:10, 15:21, 15:23).
-Do you have right ambition? (13:4, 14:17, 15:17, 17:1).
4. Your emotions respond to criticism.
-Do not weigh criticism primarily by whether a person is qualified to give it. (17:10).
-Avoid some unhelpful and useless criticism. (17:12, 17:14, 26:9, 17:27).
5. Your emotions, through your actions, create character.
-Rather than being random or unexplained, emotions generally follow actions. (18:3, 19:3).
-Like hot metal, emotions harden into character. (16:32, 17:3).
-The steady work of emotions purchases the sturdiness of character. (23:17, 23:18, 23:20, 23:21-23, 24:1-2).
-Train emotion with truth. (24:9, 25:21-22, 27:2, 27:4-6, 27:9, 29:1, 29:11).
6. Lift up the sick of heart. (12:25, 13:12, 15:13, 15:15, 15:30, 17:22, 18:14, 25:20, 25:25).
7. Address your own sickness of heart. (20:9, 21:2, 21:4, 27:19).