Proverbs 6 Cross References - AKJV

¹ My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger, ² You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth. ³ Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend. ⁴ Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. ⁵ Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. ⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: ⁷ Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. ⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ¹¹ So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man. ¹² A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth. ¹³ He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers; ¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord. ¹⁵ Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. ¹⁶ These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him: ¹⁷ A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹ A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers. ²⁰ My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: ²¹ Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck. ²² When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you. ²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: ²⁴ To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids. ²⁶ For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. ²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸ Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned? ²⁹ So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent. ³⁰ Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; ³¹ But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. ³² But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul. ³³ A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. ³⁴ For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. ³⁵ He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

⁵ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done to me? why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why said you, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way.

⁴ But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, will you slay also a righteous nation? ⁵ Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this. ⁶ And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also withheld you from sinning against me: therefore suffered I you not to touch her. ⁷ Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you restore her not, know you that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? one of the people might lightly have lien with your wife, and you should have brought guiltiness on us. ¹¹ And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

⁹ There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back any thing from me but you, because you are his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? ¹⁰ And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he listened not to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

¹⁴ That she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in an Hebrew to us to mock us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:

³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, For as much as God has showed you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are:

⁹ I will be surety for him; of my hand shall you require him: if I bring him not to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame for ever:

³² For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. ³³ Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

⁴ Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch.

³ And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

¹⁶ And it shall be for a token on your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

¹⁴ You shall not commit adultery.

¹⁶ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹ If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. ² If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. ³ If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. ⁴ If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

¹ You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

¹⁷ You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin on him.

¹⁰ And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

¹⁴ And the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

¹¹ Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

⁸ And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

¹⁰ There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. ¹¹ Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. ¹² For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.

¹⁰ That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

¹⁶ If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; ¹⁷ Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; ¹⁸ And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; ¹⁹ Then shall you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you. ²⁰ And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more any such evil among you.

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them:

¹⁸ You shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are abomination to the LORD your God.

⁴ Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

¹⁶ For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

¹⁶ Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

²⁵ Cursed be he that takes reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁹ And she made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. ²⁰ And she said, The Philistines be on you, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD was departed from him. ²¹ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

²⁹ And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel. ³⁰ And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.

³⁶ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in your house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray you, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

²⁸ And Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why came you down here? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you are come down that you might see the battle.

² And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look on. ³ And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

³ And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned to her house.

⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned to her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

⁶ And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

⁹ Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

²¹ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, which he has left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that you are abhorred of your father: then shall the hands of all that are with you be strong.

¹⁴ And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

⁵ Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

¹⁰ And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, You did blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. ¹¹ And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. ¹² They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. ¹³ And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. ¹⁴ Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

¹ Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance to Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.

³⁰ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

⁴ And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

⁵ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus said the LORD, You have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

¹² And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you: ⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to you.

¹² Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,

³ Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?

¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

⁹ If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; ¹⁰ Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her. ¹¹ For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. ¹² For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

³⁹ Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

³⁹ Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

²⁶ Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? ²⁷ Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high? ²⁸ She dwells and stays on the rock, on the crag of the rock, and the strong place. ²⁹ From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. ³⁰ Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

⁴ Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant for ever? ⁵ Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens? ⁶ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? ⁸ Lay your hand on him, remember the battle, do no more. ⁹ Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? ¹⁰ None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? ¹¹ Who has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. ¹² I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. ¹³ Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. ¹⁵ His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. ¹⁶ One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. ¹⁸ By his neesings a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. ²¹ His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. ²³ The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. ²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. ²⁵ When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. ²⁶ The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. ²⁷ He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. ²⁸ The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble. ²⁹ Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear. ³⁰ Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things on the mire. ³¹ He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. ³³ On earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. ³⁴ He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

⁶ You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

³ For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors. ⁴ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

¹ In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

⁵ The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

²⁷ For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.

⁸ The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

¹² Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

⁸ And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹¹ False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

¹⁹ Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good. ⁴ He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.

¹ O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. ² For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

³ O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.

²² Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

¹ Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

² The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. ³ You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. ⁴ You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

⁶ Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. ⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. ⁸ They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

⁸ They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. ⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

¹⁸ Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction. ¹⁹ How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall despise their image.

³ Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

⁸ Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

⁵ Whoever privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

⁹ Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.

¹¹ Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

²⁴ Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

⁵⁴ Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

⁹⁷ O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.

¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.

¹⁴⁸ My eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.

² Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. ³ What shall be given to you? or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

⁷ Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

¹ Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

⁴ I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

⁵ Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: ⁹ For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

²² How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

²⁷ When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.

¹¹ Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you: ¹² To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;

¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;

¹⁸ For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead. ¹⁹ None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

³ Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart:

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and happy is every one that retains her.

²³ Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble. ²⁴ When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yes, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

²⁹ Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

³² For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

³ For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. ⁴ He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.

¹³ Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.

²¹ Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart.

²⁴ Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

⁶ Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.

⁹ Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel: ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger; ¹¹ And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed, ¹² And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins. ²³ He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ¹¹ So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.

¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

¹⁸ An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹ A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.

¹ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you. ² Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye. ³ Bind them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart. ⁴ Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman: ⁵ That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.

⁷ And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

²² He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; ²³ Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

²³ Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

¹³ The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.

²⁵ Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

³⁶ But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

⁴ Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, she said to him,

¹⁶ Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants understanding, she said to him, ¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ¹⁸ But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

⁴ He becomes poor that deals with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich. ⁵ He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

¹⁰ He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

¹ A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

¹⁵ He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hates indebtedness is sure.

²⁰ They that are of a fraudulent heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

¹³ The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

¹⁷ He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

²² Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. ⁹ The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.

¹⁹ The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

²⁴ The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

³¹ The ear that hears the reproof of life stays among the wise.

⁵ Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

²⁷ An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. ²⁸ A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.

²⁸ A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends. ²⁹ A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good. ³⁰ He shuts his eyes to devise fraudulent things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.

⁴ A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.

⁷ Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

¹⁵ He that justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

¹⁸ A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his friend.

⁷ A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

⁹ He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

⁵ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape.

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

²⁴ A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

¹⁰ Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

²³ Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

⁴ An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

⁸ The way of man is fraudulent and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

²⁵ The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.

⁸ He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yes, strife and reproach shall cease.

¹³ The slothful man said, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

²⁶ Be not you one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

²² Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

³³ Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴ Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast.

⁸ He that devises to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

³⁰ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; ³¹ And, see, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. ³² Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked on it, and received instruction. ³³ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ³⁴ So shall your poverty come as one that travels; and your want as an armed man.

³⁴ So shall your poverty come as one that travels; and your want as an armed man.

¹⁸ A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

¹³ The slothful man said, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. ¹⁴ As the door turns on his hinges, so does the slothful on his bed. ¹⁵ The slothful hides his hand in his bosom; it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth. ¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ¹⁷ He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears. ¹⁸ As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death, ¹⁹ So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and said, Am not I in sport? ²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases. ²¹ As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. ²² The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

¹³ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

¹ He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

³ Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that keeps company with harlots spends his substance.

⁸ Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.

¹¹ There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

¹³ There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

¹⁸ There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I know not:

²¹ For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

²⁴ There be four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceeding wise: ²⁵ The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

²⁷ The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

²⁹ There be three things which go well, yes, four are comely in going:

²⁵ I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: ²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.

⁹ You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

⁶ Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.

¹⁵ And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

⁹ And the mean man bows down, and the great man humbles himself: therefore forgive them not.

¹¹ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

⁹ The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.

¹⁶ Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

¹³ Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. ¹⁴ And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water with out of the pit.

⁷ The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. ⁴ None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. ⁵ They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. ⁶ Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. ⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

⁸ They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

⁸ They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? said the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

²¹ Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

¹¹ And shall say to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

⁸ And to this people you shall say, Thus said the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

² One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

⁸ And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus said the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: ⁹ And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. ¹⁰ And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

² Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

⁸ Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, said the Lord GOD.

¹⁸ And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save the souls alive that come to you?

³¹ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?

¹¹ And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

¹⁸ After this shall he turn his face to the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn on him. ¹⁹ Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. ²⁰ Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. ²¹ And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

¹ Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. ² By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.

¹¹ Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the heart. ¹² My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to them: for the spirit of prostitutions has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. ⁶ For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls to me.

⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

⁹ O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help.

³ Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

⁶ Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

⁹ Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

¹¹ Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

¹ Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

⁴ Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

⁶ Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

¹ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

¹⁷ And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, said the LORD.

⁹ Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, said the LORD of hosts.

⁶ And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

²⁸ But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

²⁵ But for as much as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

¹⁷ Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: ¹⁸ Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

²⁶ His lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed:

⁵⁹ Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

³⁵ Watch you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house comes, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: ³⁶ Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

¹³ And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. ¹⁴ And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. ¹⁵ And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

³⁰ But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.

⁸ And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

¹³ And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

³⁰ Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ²³ And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. ²⁴ Why God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood:

¹¹ Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

¹¹ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brothers, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.

¹ Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

²² Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

³ For as much as you are manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

⁷ Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. ⁸ For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

¹⁴ Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. ³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail on a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail on a woman with child; and they shall not escape. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵ You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

¹³ And with they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

¹⁹ Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

²³ But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do engender strifes.

¹⁰ For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: ¹¹ Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹⁸ If he has wronged you, or owes you ought, put that on my account; ¹⁹ I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to you how you owe to me even your own self besides.

¹² That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

²² By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

⁴ Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

¹⁴ But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

²¹ Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. ¹⁶ For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

⁵ Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

¹⁹ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

⁹ I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not. ¹⁰ Why, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and forbids them that would, and casts them out of the church.

⁵ Remember therefore from where you are fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come to you quickly, and will remove your candlestick out of his place, except you repent.

²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

¹⁵ For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.