Welcome to Proverbs chapter 6 on Build Your Bible Habit. Chapter 6 has a beginning, middle, and an end. The beginning includes financial advice, the middle covers daily living, and then the end has warnings about the trap of adultery. This is a loaded chapter. Let's read it together.

Proverbs chapter 6. My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand

with a stranger, thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of

thy mouth. Do 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. Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Deliver

thyself as a row from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Go to the aunt, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, overseer or ruler,

provideth her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou

arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to

sleep, so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

He winketh with his eyes. He speaketh with his feet. He teacheth with his fingers.

Frowardness is in his heart. He deviseth mischief continually. He soweth discord.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly, suddenly, shall he be broken

without remedy. These six things doth the Lord hate, yea seven, are an abomination unto him.

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, and heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,

feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that sooth

discord among brethren. My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

When thou goest, it shall lead thee.

When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee.

And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

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