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Proverbs 22:26 (NLT)
Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else.
Proverbs 22:27 (NLT)
If you can’t pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you.
Proverbs 22:28 (NLT)
Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers set up by previous generations.
Proverbs 22:29 (NLT)
Do you see any truly competent workers? They will serve kings rather than working for ordinary people.
Proverbs 6:1 (NLT)
My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—
Proverbs 6:2 (NLT)
if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said—
Proverbs 6:3 (NLT)
follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.
Proverbs 6:4 (NLT)
Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do.
Proverbs 6:5 (NLT)
Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.
Proverbs 6:6 (NLT)
Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!
Proverbs 6:7 (NLT)
Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,
Proverbs 6:8 (NLT)
they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.
Proverbs 6:9 (NLT)
But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up?
Proverbs 6:10 (NLT)
A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
Proverbs 6:11 (NLT)
then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
Proverbs 6:12 (NLT)
What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars,
Proverbs 6:13 (NLT)
signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.
Proverbs 6:14 (NLT)
Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble.
Proverbs 6:15 (NLT)
But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.
Proverbs 6:16 (NLT)
There are six things the Lord hates— no, seven things he detests:
Proverbs 6:17 (NLT)
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,
Proverbs 6:18 (NLT)
a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong,
Proverbs 6:19 (NLT)
a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.
Proverbs 6:20 (NLT)
My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
Proverbs 6:21 (NLT)
Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.