Proverbs 6 (NET)

Proverbs 6:1¹My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 17:18Prov 22:26Prov 11:15Prov 20:16Gen 43:9Gen 44:32-33Heb 7:22Job 17:3Phlm 1:18-19Prov 27:13

Proverbs 6:2²if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 18:7Prov 12:13

Proverbs 6:3³then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: Go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:102 Sam 24:14Ps 31:82 Chr 12:52 Chr 36:12Exod 10:3

Proverbs 6:4⁴Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 132:4Prov 6:10-11Mark 13:35-36Eccl 9:10Matt 24:17-18

Proverbs 6:5⁵Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 91:3Ps 124:7Prov 1:17

Proverbs 6:6⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe her ways and be wise!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 20:4Prov 18:9Prov 13:4Prov 6:9Heb 6:12Matt 25:26Prov 30:25Rom 12:11Prov 26:13-16Prov 19:15

Proverbs 6:7⁷It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 38:39-39:12Prov 30:27Job 39:26-30Job 41:4-34

Proverbs 6:8⁸yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:51 Tim 6:19Prov 30:25

Proverbs 6:9⁹How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 24:33-34Ps 94:8Eph 5:14Jer 4:141 Thess 5:2-7Prov 1:22Rom 13:11

Proverbs 6:10¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 24:33-34Prov 6:6Prov 23:33-34

Proverbs 6:11¹¹and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 13:4Prov 10:4Prov 20:4Prov 24:34

Proverbs 6:12¹²A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 6:13¹³he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 35:19Job 15:12Prov 10:10Prov 5:6

Proverbs 6:14¹⁴he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 6:15¹⁵Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:16Jer 19:111 Thess 5:3Isa 30:13-14Prov 1:27Ps 73:18-20Prov 29:1Ps 50:22

Proverbs 6:16¹⁶There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 11:5Prov 8:13Prov 11:20Deut 25:16Prov 17:15Prov 3:32Prov 11:1Deut 24:4Prov 15:8-9Amos 1:11

Proverbs 6:17¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 120:2-3Prov 12:22Isa 1:15Ps 101:5Ps 5:6Deut 27:25Isa 3:9Prov 21:4Prov 26:28Hos 4:1-2

Proverbs 6:18¹⁸a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 6:5Prov 1:16Jer 4:14Ps 36:4Rom 3:15Isa 59:7Zech 8:17Mic 2:1Prov 24:8

Proverbs 6:19¹⁹a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 6:20²⁰My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:1Deut 27:16Prov 7:1-4Prov 1:8-9Prov 23:22Deut 21:18Prov 30:11

Proverbs 6:21²¹Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 3:3Prov 7:3-42 Cor 3:3Deut 6:8Exod 13:16Prov 4:6Prov 4:21

Proverbs 6:22²²When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:11Prov 3:23-24Prov 2:11Ps 119:24Ps 119:97Ps 43:3Ps 119:148Ps 119:54Ps 119:9Ps 17:4

Proverbs 6:23²³For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:1052 Pet 1:19Ps 19:8Prov 15:31Prov 4:13Prov 4:4Jer 21:8Prov 15:24Prov 29:15Ps 119:98-100

Proverbs 6:24²⁴by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 7:26Prov 2:16Prov 5:3Prov 7:5

Proverbs 6:25²⁵Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:14-15Matt 5:282 Kgs 9:302 Sam 11:2-5Isa 3:16Song 4:9

Proverbs 6:26²⁶for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 15:30Prov 29:31 Sam 2:36Gen 39:14Ezek 13:18Ezek 13:8Luke 15:13-15Prov 29:8Prov 5:10Prov 7:23

Proverbs 6:27²⁷Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 31:9-12Hos 7:4-7Jas 3:5

Proverbs 6:28²⁸Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Proverbs 6:29²⁹So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 6:30³⁰People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Proverbs 6:31³¹Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:82 Sam 12:6Exod 22:1-4Job 20:18Matt 18:25

Proverbs 6:32³²A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 6:33³³He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 5:9-111 Kgs 15:5Gen 49:4Judg 16:19-21Matt 1:6Neh 13:26Ps 38:1-8Ps 51:1Ps 51:8

Proverbs 6:34³⁴for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 5:14Prov 27:4Song 8:61 Cor 10:22Judg 19:29-30Num 25:11

Proverbs 6:35³⁵He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:1Isa 2:9Mal 2:9Prov 4:3Prov 7:13Prov 8:25