Proverbs 6 : 1 (NET)
My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,
Proverbs 6 : 2 (NET)
if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,
Proverbs 6 : 3 (NET)
then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.
Proverbs 6 : 4 (NET)
Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6 : 5 (NET)
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
Proverbs 6 : 6 (NET)
Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!
Proverbs 6 : 7 (NET)
It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,
Proverbs 6 : 8 (NET)
yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.
Proverbs 6 : 9 (NET)
How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
Proverbs 6 : 10 (NET)
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
Proverbs 6 : 11 (NET)
and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
Proverbs 6 : 12 (NET)
A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;
Proverbs 6 : 13 (NET)
he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;
Proverbs 6 : 14 (NET)
he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.
Proverbs 6 : 15 (NET)
Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
Proverbs 6 : 16 (NET)
There are six things that the LORD hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 6 : 17 (NET)
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 6 : 18 (NET)
a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,
Proverbs 6 : 19 (NET)
a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.
Proverbs 6 : 20 (NET)
My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
Proverbs 6 : 21 (NET)
Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
Proverbs 6 : 22 (NET)
When you walk about, 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 (NET)
For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
Proverbs 6 : 24 (NET)
by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
Proverbs 6 : 25 (NET)
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
Proverbs 6 : 26 (NET)
for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
Proverbs 6 : 27 (NET)
Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?
Proverbs 6 : 28 (NET)
Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
Proverbs 6 : 29 (NET)
So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
Proverbs 6 : 30 (NET)
People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.
Proverbs 6 : 31 (NET)
Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.
Proverbs 6 : 32 (NET)
A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.
Proverbs 6 : 33 (NET)
He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away;
Proverbs 6 : 34 (NET)
for jealousy kindles a husband's rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.
Proverbs 6 : 35 (NET)
He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.
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