What Is the Character of a Person?

A question to consider proverbs chapter 12 is concerned at many points with the way that people's words and actions, even ones that might seem otherwise insignificant, reveal their characters. What are some of the key things in the immediate situation, in the medium term and in the long term that will help us to discern what type of persons they are? In Colossians, chapter two, verses eight, 19, see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition - not according to christ. Let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath. These are a