Apples of Gold
A Word Fitly Spoken — Proverbs 25:11
Proverbs 11:16
July 5, 2026
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Proverbs 11:16 “A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.”
— Proverbs 16:11
✦ Golden Insight
“The truth at the heart of this verse
What you can keep in life depends on what you are in life.
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✦ Frame of Silver
“The context and setting that shapes its meaning”
Honour rests where grace has shaped the soul. Riches remain where strength has steadied the life. Blessings do not stay because we grasp them tightly, but because our character can bear their weight. What we are determines what remains.
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✦ Fruit of Christ
“How this truth bears fruit in a life following Christ”
Christ forms in us the grace that keeps honour and the strength that keeps blessing, for only in Him do we become the kind of people who can hold what God gives.
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“And the truth held firm.”
— Ophel
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