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Proverbs 15

  • 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
  • 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
  • 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
  • 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  • 15:5 A fool despises his father’s instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent.
  • 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
  • 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish does not so.
  • 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.
  • 15:10 Correction is grievous to him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die.
  • 15:11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
  • 15:12 A scorner loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go to the wise.
  • 15:13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
  • 15:14 The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
  • 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
  • 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
  • 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  • 15:18 A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.
  • 15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
  • 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.
  • 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walks uprightly.
  • 15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
  • 15:23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
  • 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
  • 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
  • 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
  • 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts shall live.
  • 15:28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
  • 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
  • 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart: and a good report makes the bones fat.
  • 15:31 The ear that hears the reproof of life stays among the wise.
  • 15:32 He that refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he that hears reproof gets understanding.
  • 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 14

  • 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.
  • 14:2 He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.
  • 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
  • 14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
  • 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
  • 14:6 A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understands.
  • 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.
  • 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
  • 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor.
  • 14:10 The heart knows his own bitterness; and a stranger does not intermeddle with his joy.
  • 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
  • 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
  • 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
  • 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
  • 14:15 The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going.
  • 14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
  • 14:17 He that is soon angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
  • 14:18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
  • 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
  • 14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.
  • 14:21 He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
  • 14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
  • 14:23 In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tends only to penury.
  • 14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
  • 14:25 A true witness delivers souls: but a deceitful witness speaks lies.
  • 14:26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
  • 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
  • 14:28 In the multitude of people is the king’s honor: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
  • 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
  • 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
  • 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
  • 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.
  • 14:33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him that has understanding: but that which is in the middle of fools is made known.
  • 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
  • 14:35 The king’s favor is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causes shame.

Proverbs 13

  • 13:1 A wise son hears his father’s instruction: but a scorner hears not rebuke.
  • 13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
  • 13:3 He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
  • 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
  • 13:5 A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.
  • 13:6 Righteousness keeps him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
  • 13:7 There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.
  • 13:8 The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor hears not rebuke.
  • 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
  • 13:10 Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
  • 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
  • 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
  • 13:13 Whoever despises the word shall be destroyed: but he that fears the commandment shall be rewarded.
  • 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
  • 13:15 Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.
  • 13:16 Every prudent man deals with knowledge: but a fool lays open his folly.
  • 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
  • 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction: but he that regards reproof shall be honored.
  • 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
  • 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
  • 13:21 Evil pursues sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.
  • 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
  • 13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
  • 13:24 He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him betimes.
  • 13:25 The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

Proverbs 12

  • 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
  • 12:2 A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
  • 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
  • 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
  • 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
  • 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
  • 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
  • 12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
  • 12:9 He that is despised, and has a servant, is better than he that honors himself, and lacks bread.
  • 12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
  • 12:11 He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
  • 12:12 The wicked desires the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yields fruit.
  • 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
  • 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man’s hands shall be rendered to him.
  • 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to counsel is wise.
  • 12:16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covers shame.
  • 12:17 He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
  • 12:18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
  • 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
  • 12:20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
  • 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
  • 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
  • 12:23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
  • 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
  • 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.
  • 12:26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduces them.
  • 12:27 The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
  • 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Proverbs 11

  • 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
  • 11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
  • 11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
  • 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
  • 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
  • 11:7 When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes.
  • 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his stead.
  • 11:9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
  • 11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
  • 11:11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
  • 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor: but a man of understanding holds his peace.
  • 11:13 A talebearer reveals secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit conceals the matter.
  • 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
  • 11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hates indebtedness is sure.
  • 11:16 A gracious woman retains honor: and strong men retain riches.
  • 11:17 The merciful man does good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh.
  • 11:18 The wicked works a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness shall be a sure reward.
  • 11:19 As righteousness tends to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
  • 11:20 They that are of a fraudulent heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
  • 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
  • 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
  • 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
  • 11:24 There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.
  • 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.
  • 11:26 He that withholds corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be on the head of him that sells it.
  • 11:27 He that diligently seeks good procures favor: but he that seeks mischief, it shall come to him.
  • 11:28 He that trusts in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
  • 11:29 He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
  • 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.
  • 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

Proverbs 10

  • 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
  • 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
  • 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the substance of the wicked.
  • 10:4 He becomes poor that deals with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
  • 10:5 He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.
  • 10:6 Blessings are on the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
  • 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
  • 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
  • 10:9 He that walks uprightly walks surely: but he that perverts his ways shall be known.
  • 10:10 He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
  • 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
  • 10:12 Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.
  • 10:13 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
  • 10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
  • 10:15 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
  • 10:16 The labor of the righteous tends to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
  • 10:17 He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof errs.
  • 10:18 He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
  • 10:19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.
  • 10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
  • 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
  • 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
  • 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding has wisdom.
  • 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come on him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
  • 10:25 As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
  • 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
  • 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
  • 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
  • 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
  • 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
  • 10:31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the fraudulent tongue shall be cut out.
  • 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks frowardness.

Proverbs 9

  • 9:1 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars:
  • 9:2 She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table.
  • 9:3 She has sent forth her maidens: she cries on the highest places of the city,
  • 9:4 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, she said to him,
  • 9:5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
  • 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
  • 9:7 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot.
  • 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
  • 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
  • 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
  • 9:11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
  • 9:12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
  • 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.
  • 9:14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
  • 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
  • 9:16 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants understanding, she said to him,
  • 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
  • 9:18 But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 8

  • 8:1 Does not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
  • 8:2 She stands in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
  • 8:3 She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
  • 8:4 To you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
  • 8:5 O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding heart.
  • 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
  • 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
  • 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing fraudulent or perverse in them.
  • 8:9 They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.
  • 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
  • 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
  • 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
  • 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.
  • 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
  • 8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
  • 8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
  • 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
  • 8:18 Riches and honor are with me; yes, durable riches and righteousness.
  • 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
  • 8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of judgment:
  • 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
  • 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
  • 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
  • 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
  • 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
  • 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
  • 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass on the face of the depth:
  • 8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
  • 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
  • 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
  • 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
  • 8:32 Now therefore listen to me, O you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
  • 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
  • 8:34 Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
  • 8:35 For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.
  • 8:36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 7

  • 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
  • 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
  • 7:3 Bind them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart.
  • 7:4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
  • 7:5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
  • 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
  • 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
  • 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
  • 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
  • 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
  • 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
  • 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)
  • 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
  • 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
  • 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
  • 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
  • 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
  • 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
  • 7:19 For the manager is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
  • 7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
  • 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
  • 7:22 He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
  • 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
  • 7:24 Listen to me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
  • 7:25 Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
  • 7:26 For she has cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her.
  • 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 6

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