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Proverbs 5:13 (NIV)
I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.
Proverbs 5:14 (NIV)
And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”
Proverbs 5:15 (NIV)
Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (NIV)
Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Proverbs 5:17 (NIV)
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Proverbs 5:18 (NIV)
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:19 (NIV)
A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
Proverbs 5:20 (NIV)
Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
Proverbs 5:21 (NIV)
For your ways are in full view of the Lord , and he examines all your paths.
Proverbs 5:22 (NIV)
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
Proverbs 5:23 (NIV)
For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
Proverbs 6:1 (NIV)
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
Proverbs 6:2 (NIV)
you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.
Proverbs 6:3 (NIV)
So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion— and give your neighbor no rest!
Proverbs 6:4 (NIV)
Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6:5 (NIV)
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:6 (NIV)
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
Proverbs 6:7 (NIV)
It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
Proverbs 6:8 (NIV)
yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:9 (NIV)
How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
Proverbs 6:10 (NIV)
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
Proverbs 6:11 (NIV)
and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:12 (NIV)
A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
Proverbs 6:13 (NIV)
who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
Proverbs 6:14 (NIV)
who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.