{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T14:24:33.498Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 6 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 6](https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/6 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}