Poetry---Memory

1. Sentence completion: "Pride goes before destruction, A ----"

2. Fill in the blanks: One proverb says, "A------- loves at all times, A

-------- is born for adversity."

3. One proverb reads,"A merry-------- does good, like--------, But a broken

--------- dries up the bones."

4. Sentence completion: One of the proverbs reads, "A man who

has friends must himself be friendly, But there is---"

1. "A haughty spirit before a fall" (Prov. 16:18 )

Pride and arrogance are the forerunners of self-destruction.

2. Friend--- brother (Prov. 17:17 )

Friendship will survive conflict. In fact,friendship makes conflict endurable.

3. Heart---medicine-----spirit (prov. 17: 22 )

One's emotional well-being affects all of one's personality for good or ill.

4. :A friend who sticks closer then a brother" (Prov. 18: 24 )

Primarily, Solomon had in mind that a true friend, who is a rare creature, will be more loyal then anyone else, but Christians have rightly concluded that Jesus is the closest Friend and have applied this passage to Him.