Proverbs 6 | BSB Bible Study

Proverbs 6:1 (BSB)
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

Proverbs 6:2 (BSB)
if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,

Proverbs 6:3 (BSB)
then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

Proverbs 6:4 (BSB)
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Proverbs 6:5 (BSB)
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Proverbs 6:6 (BSB)
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.

Proverbs 6:7 (BSB)
Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

Proverbs 6:8 (BSB)
it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

Proverbs 6:9 (BSB)
How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:10 (BSB)
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 6:11 (BSB)
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

Proverbs 6:12 (BSB)
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 6:13 (BSB)
winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.

Proverbs 6:14 (BSB)
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

Proverbs 6:15 (BSB)
Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

Proverbs 6:16 (BSB)
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

Proverbs 6:17 (BSB)
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:18 (BSB)
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

Proverbs 6:19 (BSB)
a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

Proverbs 6:20 (BSB)
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6:21 (BSB)
Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 6:22 (BSB)
When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

Proverbs 6:23 (BSB)
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Proverbs 6:24 (BSB)
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 6:25 (BSB)
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Proverbs 6:26 (BSB)
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 6:27 (BSB)
Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 6:28 (BSB)
Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Proverbs 6:29 (BSB)
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Proverbs 6:30 (BSB)
Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

Proverbs 6:31 (BSB)
Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

Proverbs 6:32 (BSB)
He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 6:33 (BSB)
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

Proverbs 6:34 (BSB)
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Proverbs 6:35 (BSB)
He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

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