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Proverbs 6; Proverbs 7; 2 Corinthians 2

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Proverbs 6

1 My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,
2 you will be trapped by your words; you will be caught by your words.
3 Do this, my son, to get out of it, for you have come under the control of your neighbor. So go, humble yourself, and pester your neighbor.
4 Don't give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
5 Get yourself free like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from the hand of a fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you lazy person; observe its ways and grow wise.
7 The ant has no commander, officer, or ruler.
8 Even so, it gets its food in summer; gathers its provisions at harvest.
9 How long, lazy person, will you lie down? When will you rise from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to lie down—
11 and poverty will come on you like a prowler, destitution like a warrior.
12 Worthless people and guilty people go around with crooked talk.
13 They wink their eyes, gesture with their feet, and point with their fingers.
14 Their hearts are corrupt and determined to do evil; they create controversies all the time.
15 Therefore, sudden disaster will come upon them; they will be quickly broken beyond healing.
16 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven things detestable to him:
17 snobbish eyes, a lying tongue, hands that spill innocent blood,
18 a heart set on wicked plans, feet that run quickly to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes lies, and one who causes conflicts among relatives.
20 My son, keep your father's command; don't abandon your mother's instruction.
21 Bind them on your heart for all time; fasten them around your neck.
22 When you walk around, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will protect you; when you awake, they will occupy your attention.
23 The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light; corrective teaching is the path of life.
24 They guard you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.
25 Don't desire her beauty in secret; don't let her take you in with her eyelashes,
26 for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for a man's very life.
27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap and his clothes not get burned?
28 If a man walks on hot coals, don't his feet get burned?
29 So is the man who approaches his neighbor's wife; anyone who touches her will be punished.
30 People don't despise a thief if he steals to fill his starving stomach.
31 But if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give all the riches of his house.
32 He who commits adultery is senseless. Doing so, he destroys himself.
33 He is wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be wiped away.
34 Jealousy makes a man rage; he'll show no mercy on his day of revenge.
35 He won't accept compensation; he'll refuse even a large bribe.
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Proverbs 7

1 My son, keep my words; store up my commands within you.
2 Keep my commands and live, and my instruction like the pupil of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister"; call understanding "friend,"
5 so she might guard you against the mysterious woman, from the foreign woman who flatters you.
6 When from the window of my house, from behind the screen, I gazed down,
7 I looked among the naive young men and noticed among the youth, one who had no sense.
8 He was crossing the street at her corner and walked down the path to her house
9 in the early evening, at the onset of night and darkness.
10 All of a sudden a woman approaches him, dressed like a prostitute and with a cunning mind.
11 She is noisy and defiant; her feet don't stay long in her own house.
12 She has one foot in the street, one foot in the public square. She lies in wait at every corner.
13 She grabs him and kisses him. Her face is brazen as she speaks to him:
14 "I've made a sacrifice of well-being; today I fulfilled my solemn promises.
15 So I've come out to meet you, seeking you, and I have found you.
16 I've spread my bed with luxurious covers, with colored linens from Egypt.
17 I've sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let's drink deep of love until morning; let's savor our lovemaking.
19 For my husband isn't home; he's gone far away.
20 He took a pouch of money with him; he won't come home till full moon."
21 She seduces him with all her talk. She entices him with her flattery.
22 He goes headlong after her, like an ox to the slaughter, like a deer leaping into a trap,
23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird hurrying to the snare, not aware that it will cost him his life.
24 Now children, listen to me, and pay attention to my speech.
25 Don't turn your heart to her ways; don't wander down her paths.
26 She has caused many corpses to fall; she has killed many people.
27 Her house is a path to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
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2 Corinthians 2

1 So I decided that, for my own sake, I wouldn't visit you again while I was upset.
2 If I make you sad, who will be there to make me glad when you are sad because of me?
3 That's why I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I wouldn't be made sad by the ones who ought to make me happy. I have confidence in you, that my happiness means your happiness.
4 I wrote to you in tears, with a very troubled and anxious heart. I didn't write to make you sad but so you would know the overwhelming love that I have for you.
5 But if someone has made anyone sad, that person hasn't hurt me but all of you to some degree (not to exaggerate).
6 The punishment handed out by the majority is enough for this person.
7 This is why you should try your best to forgive and to comfort this person now instead, so that this person isn't overwhelmed by too much sorrow.
8 So I encourage you to show your love for this person.
9 This is another reason why I wrote you. I wanted to test you and see if you are obedient in everything.
10 If you forgive anyone for anything, I do too. And whatever I've forgiven (if I've forgiven anything), I did it for you in the presence of Christ.
11 This is so that we won't be taken advantage of by Satan, because we are well aware of his schemes.
12 When I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, the Lord gave me an opportunity to preach.
13 But I was worried because I couldn't find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and went on to Macedonia.
14 But thank God, who is always leading us around through Christ as if we were in a parade. He releases the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere through us.
15 We smell like the aroma of Christ's offering to God, both to those who are being saved and to those who are on the road to destruction.
16 We smell like a contagious dead person to those who are dying, but we smell like the fountain of life to those who are being saved. Who is qualified for this kind of ministry?
17 We aren't like so many people who hustle the word of God to make a profit. We are speaking through Christ in the presence of God, as those who are sincere and as those who are sent from God.
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