Proverbs 6

¹My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 17:18Prov 22:26Prov 11:15Prov 20:16Gen 43:9Gen 44:32-33Heb 7:22Job 17:3Phlm 1:18-19Prov 27:13

²Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 18:7Prov 12:13

³Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 4:102 Sam 24:14Ps 31:82 Chr 12:52 Chr 36:12Exod 10:3

⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 132:4Prov 6:10-11Mark 13:35-36Eccl 9:10Matt 24:17-18

⁵Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 91:3Ps 124:7Prov 1:17

⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 20:4Prov 18:9Prov 13:4Prov 6:9Heb 6:12Matt 25:26Prov 30:25Rom 12:11Prov 26:13-16Prov 19:15

⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 38:39-39:12Prov 30:27Job 39:26-30Job 41:4-34

⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 10:51 Tim 6:19Prov 30:25

⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 24:33-34Ps 94:8Eph 5:14Jer 4:141 Thess 5:2-7Prov 1:22Rom 13:11

¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 24:33-34Prov 6:6Prov 23:33-34

¹¹So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 13:4Prov 10:4Prov 20:4Prov 24:34

¹²A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 12:341 Tim 5:13Prov 16:27Prov 4:24Ps 52:2-4Ps 59:7Acts 20:30Prov 17:4Prov 8:13Titus 1:10-11

¹³He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 35:19Job 15:12Prov 10:10Prov 5:6

¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 2:1Rom 16:17Hos 8:7Prov 6:18-19Prov 2:14Prov 26:17-22Ps 36:4Ezek 11:2Gal 6:7-8Isa 32:7

¹⁵Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 36:16Jer 19:111 Thess 5:3Isa 30:13-14Prov 1:27Ps 73:18-20Prov 29:1Ps 50:22

¹⁶These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 11:5Prov 8:13Prov 11:20Deut 25:16Prov 17:15Prov 3:32Prov 11:1Deut 24:4Prov 15:8-9Amos 1:11

¹⁷A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 120:2-3Prov 12:22Isa 1:15Ps 101:5Ps 5:6Deut 27:25Isa 3:9Prov 21:4Prov 26:28Hos 4:1-2

¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 6:5Prov 1:16Jer 4:14Ps 36:4Rom 3:15Isa 59:7Zech 8:17Mic 2:1Prov 24:8

¹⁹A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 19:5Prov 6:14Jas 3:18Prov 19:9Ps 27:12Deut 19:16-20Jas 3:14-16Prov 25:182 Tim 2:23Acts 6:13

²⁰My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 6:1Deut 27:16Prov 7:1-4Prov 1:8-9Prov 23:22Deut 21:18Prov 30:11

²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 3:3Prov 7:3-42 Cor 3:3Deut 6:8Exod 13:16Prov 4:6Prov 4:21

²²When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 119:11Prov 3:23-24Prov 2:11Ps 119:24Ps 119:97Ps 43:3Ps 119:148Ps 119:54Ps 119:9Ps 17:4

²³For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 119:1052 Pet 1:19Ps 19:8Prov 15:31Prov 4:13Prov 4:4Jer 21:8Prov 15:24Prov 29:15Ps 119:98-100

²⁴To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 7:26Prov 2:16Prov 5:3Prov 7:5

²⁵Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 1:14-15Matt 5:282 Kgs 9:302 Sam 11:2-5Isa 3:16Song 4:9

²⁶For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 15:30Prov 29:31 Sam 2:36Gen 39:14Ezek 13:18Ezek 13:8Luke 15:13-15Prov 29:8Prov 5:10Prov 7:23

²⁷Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 31:9-12Hos 7:4-7Jas 3:5

²⁸Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁹So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 7:12 Sam 12:9-10Ezek 22:11Lev 20:10Mal 3:52 Sam 11:3-42 Sam 16:21Gen 12:18-19Gen 26:10-11Jer 5:8-9

³⁰Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³¹But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 19:82 Sam 12:6Exod 22:1-4Job 20:18Matt 18:25

³²But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 7:7Heb 13:4Prov 7:22-23Rom 1:22-24Eccl 7:25-26Prov 2:18-19Exod 20:14Gen 39:9-10Gen 41:39Ezek 18:31

³³A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 5:9-111 Kgs 15:5Gen 49:4Judg 16:19-21Matt 1:6Neh 13:26Ps 38:1-8Ps 51:1Ps 51:8

³⁴For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 5:14Prov 27:4Song 8:61 Cor 10:22Judg 19:29-30Num 25:11

³⁵He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 5:1Isa 2:9Mal 2:9Prov 4:3Prov 7:13Prov 8:25