Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Pro 6:1 |
My child, [fn] if you co-sign a loan for a friend or guarantee the debt of someone you hardly know-- |
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Pro 6:2 |
if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said-- |
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Pro 6:3 |
quick, get out of it if you possibly can! You have placed yourself at your friend's mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased. |
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Pro 6:4 |
Don't put it off. Do it now! Don't rest until you do. |
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Pro 6:5 |
Save yourself like a deer escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net. |
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Pro 6:6 |
Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and be wise! |
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Pro 6:7 |
Even though they have no prince, governor, or ruler to make them work, |
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Pro 6:8 |
they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. |
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Pro 6:9 |
But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? I want you to learn this lesson: |
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Pro 6:10 |
A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-- |
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Pro 6:11 |
and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber. |
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Pro 6:12 |
Here is a description of worthless and wicked people: They are constant liars, |
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Pro 6:13 |
signaling their true intentions to their friends by making signs with their eyes and feet and fingers. |
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Pro 6:14 |
Their perverted hearts plot evil. They stir up trouble constantly. |
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Pro 6:15 |
But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken beyond all hope of healing. |
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Pro 6:16 |
There are six things the LORD hates--no, seven things he detests: |
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Pro 6:17 |
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, |
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Pro 6:18 |
a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, |
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Pro 6:19 |
a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord among brothers. |
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Pro 6:20 |
My son, obey your father's commands, and don't neglect your mother's teaching. |
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Pro 6:21 |
Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck. |
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Pro 6:22 |
Wherever you walk, their counsel can lead you. When you sleep, they will protect you. When you wake up in the morning, they will advise you. |
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Pro 6:23 |
For these commands and this teaching are a lamp to light the way ahead of you. The correction of discipline is the way to life. |
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Pro 6:24 |
These commands and this teaching will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of an adulterous woman. |
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Pro 6:25 |
Don't lust for her beauty. Don't let her coyness seduce you. |
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Pro 6:26 |
For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, and sleeping with another man's wife may cost you your very life. |
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Pro 6:27 |
Can a man scoop fire into his lap and not be burned? |
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Pro 6:28 |
Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet? |
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Pro 6:29 |
So it is with the man who sleeps with another man's wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished. |
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Pro 6:30 |
Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving. |
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Pro 6:31 |
But if he is caught, he will be fined seven times as much as he stole, even if it means selling everything in his house to pay it back. |
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Pro 6:32 |
But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul. |
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Pro 6:33 |
Wounds and constant disgrace are his lot. His shame will never be erased. |
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Pro 6:34 |
For the woman's husband will be furious in his jealousy, and he will have no mercy in his day of vengeance. |
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Pro 6:35 |
There is no compensation or bribe that will satisfy him. |
NLT Footnotes:
- (6:1) Hebrew My son.
