We go into the city jail each week and teach a class that is part GED preparation, part Bible study, and part life skills course. To achieve all advance all of these goals in the limited time we have, I use the traditional GED prep materials and I write lessons like the one below.
Try the lesson for yourself. Post your answers as comments.
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Montgomery City Jail Ministry
Study #9: Seek Wisdom (Proverbs 2: 10-15)
Read Proverbs 2: 10-15. Think about these verses.
Proverbs 2 : 10 When wisdom enter your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, 11 discretion will preserve you. Then understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, and 13 from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness. These is the men 14 who rejoice in doing evil and delighted in the perversity of the wicked. 15 There ways are crooked. They are devious in their paths.A verb expresses an action. The action may be physical, mental, or even spiritual. The subject in a sentence is always a noun or pronoun. The subject basically perfor ms the action of the verb.
For example:
First thing in the mor ning the twelve sons of Israel
The verb/ action is went.
Ask yourself “Who or want went?” The answer is sons went. Sons is the subject.
The main verb or verbs in a sentence are called the simple predicate. The verb and the wor ds that describe the verb are called the complete predicate of the sentence. The subject and the wor ds that describe the subject are called the complete subject.
Verbs and subjects have to agree. The singular subjects have to have singular verbs.
Unlike most nouns, singular verbs have –s or –es added to the end.
Joseph……runs goes dismisses confuses is was gives
Plural verbs do not have the added –s or –es.
The guys…. run go dismiss confuse are were give
1. The wor d knowledge in verse 10 is a subject. What is it’s verb?
a. pleasant
b. to
c. is
d. enter
2. Accor ding to verse 10, how are you supposed to feel about learning?
3. Which change should be made in verse 10? If the verse is cor rect as written, choose D.
a. When wisdom enters
b. heart. Knowledge is
c. wisdom entered your heart
d. NO CHANGE
4. List the verbs in verse 11.
a. ________________ à
b. ________________ à
5. Beside the verbs above, list each verb’s subject.
6. Discretion means being careful and wise about what you reveal or say. How can having discretion preserve/ protect you?
7. Which change should be made in verse 13? If the verse is cor rect as written, choose A.
a. NO CHANGE
b. who leaves the paths
c. from that
d. uprightness to walks
8. Verse 11 says that when you have wisdom, your understanding will keep you. Keep you from what? (Consider verses 12 & 13.)
9. Which change should be made in verse 14?
a. evil and delights in the
b. evil and delight in the
c. who rejoices in doing
d. NO CHANGE
10. In Matthew 5: 19, Jesus said Whosoever therefor e shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. How does this statement connect with Proverbs 2: 13 & 14?
11. Which change should be made in verse 15? If the verse is cor rect as written, choose D.
a. Them ways are
b. They’re ways are
c. Their ways are
d. NO CHANGE
12. From verses 12-14, list at least four kinds of people you would be wise to avoid?
a. __________________________________________
b. __________________________________________
c. __________________________________________
d. __________________________________________
e.
13. Choose the best restatement of this sentence from verse 15: They are devious in their paths.
a. The road they are on is the right road for you.
b. Follow them and you will be successful.
c. Their way looks good, but it really isn’t.
d. There is discretion in their paths.
14. In one complete sentence, state the main idea of Proverbs 2: 10-15.
Re-read Proverbs 2: 10-15. Think about it along with verses 16-19.
Proverbs 2: 16 Wisdom and understanding will deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her wor ds. 17 She for sakes the guide of her youth, and for gets the covenant of her God. 18 Her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead. 19 None that go to her return again, nor do they regain the paths of life.
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