Proverbs 6

About Proverbs Proverbs collects short sayings of practical wisdom for daily life, rooted in the fear of the LORD.

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,SelectedProverbs 6:1Ask

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.SelectedProverbs 6:2Ask

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.SelectedProverbs 6:3Ask

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.SelectedProverbs 6:4Ask

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.SelectedProverbs 6:5Ask

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:SelectedProverbs 6:6Ask

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,SelectedProverbs 6:7Ask

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.SelectedProverbs 6:8Ask

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?SelectedProverbs 6:9Ask

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:SelectedProverbs 6:10Ask

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.SelectedProverbs 6:11Ask

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.SelectedProverbs 6:12Ask

He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;SelectedProverbs 6:13Ask

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.SelectedProverbs 6:14Ask

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.SelectedProverbs 6:15Ask

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:SelectedProverbs 6:16Ask

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,SelectedProverbs 6:17Ask

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,SelectedProverbs 6:18Ask

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.SelectedProverbs 6:19Ask

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:SelectedProverbs 6:20Ask

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.SelectedProverbs 6:21Ask

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.SelectedProverbs 6:22Ask

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:SelectedProverbs 6:23Ask

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.SelectedProverbs 6:24Ask

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.SelectedProverbs 6:25Ask

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.SelectedProverbs 6:26Ask

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?SelectedProverbs 6:27Ask

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?SelectedProverbs 6:28Ask

So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.SelectedProverbs 6:29Ask

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;SelectedProverbs 6:30Ask

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.SelectedProverbs 6:31Ask

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.SelectedProverbs 6:32Ask

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.SelectedProverbs 6:33Ask

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.SelectedProverbs 6:34Ask

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.SelectedProverbs 6:35Ask

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