Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,
Proverbs 6:2
You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.
Proverbs 6:3
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.
Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6:5
Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Proverbs 6:7
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Proverbs 6:8
Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Proverbs 6:9
How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
Proverbs 6:10
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs 6:11
So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.
Proverbs 6:12
A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth.
Proverbs 6:13
He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Proverbs 6:15
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Proverbs 6:16
These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 6:18
An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck.
Proverbs 6:22
When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs 6:24
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
Proverbs 6:26
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.
Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs 6:28
Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Proverbs 6:29
So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Proverbs 6:30
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Proverbs 6:31
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Proverbs 6:32
But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.
Proverbs 6:33
A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Proverbs 6:35
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.