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In this episode, we explore the analogy in Proverbs of a gold ring in a pig’s snout to emphasise the importance of inner… (visit YouTube for more)
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Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.
Now this verse is not bashing on women at all. It’s calling for consistency. Consistency of character.
There’s something discordant here, isn’t there? Putting a gold ring in the snout of a pig is not going to increase the value of the pig.
So the writer of Proverbs wants us to be of good character. And I like to reference this with 1 Peter 3, where Peter talks about how our adornment shouldn’t be just external, it should be internal. So that we are at least as much focused on what’s going on inside us in terms of our knowledge, our character, our pursuit of righteousness and holiness as there is on anything that we do externally.
