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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.
Proverbs 6:15 (NIV)
Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
Proverbs 6:16 (NIV)
There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:
Proverbs 6:17 (NIV)
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 6:18 (NIV)
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
Proverbs 6:19 (NIV)
a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Proverbs 6:20 (NIV)
My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:21 (NIV)
Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.
Proverbs 6:22 (NIV)
When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
Proverbs 6:23 (NIV)
For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,
Proverbs 6:24 (NIV)
keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
Proverbs 6:25 (NIV)
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.