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Themes in Proverbs 6
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Themes in Proverbs 6

Proverbs 6:1

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor
or entered into an agreement with a stranger,

Proverbs 6:2

you have been trapped by the words of your lips—
ensnared by the words of your mouth.

Proverbs 6:3

Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
No Themes for this verse.

Proverbs 6:4

Don’t give sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.

Proverbs 6:5

Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,
like a bird from a fowler’s trap.

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you slacker!
Observe its ways and become wise.

Proverbs 6:7

Without leader, administrator, or ruler,

Proverbs 6:8

it prepares its provisions in summer;
it gathers its food during harvest.

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you stay in bed, you slacker?
When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:10

A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the arms to rest,

Proverbs 6:11

and your poverty will come like a robber,
your need, like a bandit.

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a wicked man
goes around speaking dishonestly,
No Themes for this verse.

Proverbs 6:13

winking his eyes, signaling with his feet,
and gesturing with his fingers.
No Themes for this verse.

Proverbs 6:14

He always plots evil with perversity in his heart—
he stirs up trouble.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly;
he will be shattered instantly—beyond recovery.

Proverbs 6:16

The Lord hates six things;
in fact, seven are detestable to Him:

Proverbs 6:17

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that plots wicked schemes,
feet eager to run to evil,

Proverbs 6:19

a lying witness who gives false testimony,
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s command,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6:21

Always bind them to your heart;
tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 6:22

When you walk here and there, they will guide you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
when you wake up, they will talk to you.

Proverbs 6:23

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,
and corrective discipline is the way to life.

Proverbs 6:24

They will protect you from an evil woman,
from the flattering tongue of a stranger.

Proverbs 6:25

Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

Proverbs 6:26

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,
but an adulteress goes after a precious life.

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man embrace fire
and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 6:28

Can a man walk on burning coals
without scorching his feet?

Proverbs 6:29

So it is with the one who sleeps with
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Proverbs 6:30

People don’t despise the thief if he steals
to satisfy himself when he is hungry.

Proverbs 6:31

Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much;
he must give up all the wealth in his house.

Proverbs 6:32

The one who commits adultery lacks sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 6:33

He will get a beating and dishonor,
and his disgrace will never be removed.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy enrages a husband,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

Proverbs 6:35

He will not be appeased by anything
or be persuaded by lavish gifts.

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