V.1-2 Boasting is bad, because it takes glory away from God, and puts it on ourselves.
V.5-6 If we love a person we won’t keep quiet when there is a fault seen in him. We will speak to him about it. Do we value a friend who speaks to us about some wrong we have done?
V.8 The house is God’s appointed place where the family keeps together.
V.9 Just as perfume or ointment refresh a person, so does a friend who gives us good advice.
V.12 A saved person sees the judgment of God ahead. He accepts Christ as his own Savior, and hides in Him. The unsaved person does not bother about the future, and so he perishes.
V.19 A person’s heart is seen in how he lives.
V.20 An unsaved person can see nothing that ever completely satisfies him.