Proverbs 6 : 1 (HCSB)
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,
Proverbs 6 : 2 (HCSB)
you have been trapped by the words of your lips-- ensnared by the words of your mouth.
Proverbs 6 : 3 (HCSB)
Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have put yourself in your neighbor's power: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
Proverbs 6 : 4 (HCSB)
Don't give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6 : 5 (HCSB)
Escape like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from a fowler's trap.
Proverbs 6 : 6 (HCSB)
Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.
Proverbs 6 : 7 (HCSB)
Without leader, administrator, or ruler,
Proverbs 6 : 8 (HCSB)
it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest.
Proverbs 6 : 9 (HCSB)
How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Proverbs 6 : 10 (HCSB)
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,
Proverbs 6 : 11 (HCSB)
and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.
Proverbs 6 : 12 (HCSB)
A worthless person, a wicked man, who goes around speaking dishonestly,
Proverbs 6 : 13 (HCSB)
who winks his eyes, signals with his feet, and gestures with his fingers,
Proverbs 6 : 14 (HCSB)
who plots evil with perversity in his heart-- he stirs up trouble constantly.
Proverbs 6 : 15 (HCSB)
Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly; he will be shattered instantly-- beyond recovery.
Proverbs 6 : 16 (HCSB)
Six things the LORD hates; in fact, seven are detestable to Him:
Proverbs 6 : 17 (HCSB)
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 6 : 18 (HCSB)
a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet eager to run to evil,
Proverbs 6 : 19 (HCSB)
a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.
Proverbs 6 : 20 (HCSB)
My son, keep your father's command, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
Proverbs 6 : 21 (HCSB)
Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck.
Proverbs 6 : 22 (HCSB)
When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.
Proverbs 6 : 23 (HCSB)
For a commandment is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective instructions are the way to life.
Proverbs 6 : 24 (HCSB)
They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a stranger.
Proverbs 6 : 25 (HCSB)
Don't lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.
Proverbs 6 : 26 (HCSB)
For a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after *your very life.
Proverbs 6 : 27 (HCSB)
Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs 6 : 28 (HCSB)
Can a man walk on coals without scorching his feet?
Proverbs 6 : 29 (HCSB)
So it is with the one who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Proverbs 6 : 30 (HCSB)
People don't despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
Proverbs 6 : 31 (HCSB)
Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much; he must give up all the wealth in his house.
Proverbs 6 : 32 (HCSB)
The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
Proverbs 6 : 33 (HCSB)
He will get a beating and dishonor, and his disgrace will never be removed.
Proverbs 6 : 34 (HCSB)
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
Proverbs 6 : 35 (HCSB)
He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish gifts.
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