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Read Full Chapter (Proverbs 6) Proverbs 6:6-20 KJV
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth 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, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 6:6-20 in Context (Verses 3–23 KJV)
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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.*
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Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
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Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
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Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
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How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
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He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
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Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.*
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Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
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¶ These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:*
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A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,*
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An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
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A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
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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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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:*