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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Proverbs chapter six, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the English Standard version. My son,

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Speaker 1: if you have put up security for your neighbor, have

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Speaker 1: given your pledge for a stranger. If you are snared

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Speaker 1: in the words of your mouth, caught in the words

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Speaker 1: of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself,

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Speaker 1: for you have come into the hand of your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Go hasten and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your

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Speaker 1: eyes no sleep, and your eyelids no slumber. Save yourself,

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Speaker 1: like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like

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Speaker 1: a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to

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Speaker 1: the ant, oh sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.

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Speaker 1: Without having any chief officer or ruler. She prepares her

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Speaker 1: bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How

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Speaker 1: long will you lie there, oh sluggard? When will you

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Speaker 1: arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber,

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Speaker 1: a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty

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Speaker 1: will come upon you like a robber, and want like

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Speaker 1: an armed man, a worthless person. A wicked man goes

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Speaker 1: about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with

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Speaker 1: his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart, devises evil,

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Speaker 1: continually sowing discord. Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly

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Speaker 1: in a moment, he will be broken beyond healing. There

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Speaker 1: are six things that the Lord hates. Seven that are

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Speaker 1: an abomination to him. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and

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Speaker 1: hands that shed innocent blood. A heart that devises wicked plans,

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Speaker 1: feet that make haste to run to evil, a false

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Speaker 1: witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord

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Speaker 1: among brothers. My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake

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Speaker 1: not your mother's teaching. Bind them on your heart. Always

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Speaker 1: tie them around your neck. When you walk, they will

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Speaker 1: lead you. When you lie down, they will watch over you,

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Speaker 1: and when you awake they will talk with you. For

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Speaker 1: the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light,

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Speaker 1: and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life.

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Speaker 1: To preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth

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Speaker 1: tongue of the adulteress, Do not desire her beauty in

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Speaker 1: your heart, and do not let her capture you with

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Speaker 1: her eyelashes. For the price of a prostitute is only

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Speaker 1: a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down

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Speaker 1: a precious life. Can a man carry fire next to

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Speaker 1: his chest and his clothes not be burned? Or can

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Speaker 1: one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?

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Speaker 1: So is he who goes in to his neighbour's wife.

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Speaker 1: None who touches her will go unpunished. People do not

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Speaker 1: despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite

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Speaker 1: when he is hungry. But if he is caught, he

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Speaker 1: will pay sevenfold. He will give all the goods of

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Speaker 1: his house. He who commits adultery lacks sense. He who

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Speaker 1: does it destroys himself. He will get wounds and dishonor,

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Speaker 1: and his disgrace will not be wiped away. For jealousy

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Speaker 1: makes a man fear, and he will not spare. When

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Speaker 1: he takes revenge, he will accept no compensation. He will

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Speaker 1: refuse though you multiply gifts. Let's pray, Lord, we thank

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Speaker 1: you for your word, and we thank you for the

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Speaker 1: privilege of being able to look at this portion of

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Speaker 1: scripture today and having the opportunity to meditate on the

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Speaker 1: things that you've revealed to us here. Lord, we're grateful

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Speaker 1: for these words of advice and words of counsel that

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Speaker 1: you have granted us. We know, Lord that you encourage

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Speaker 1: us to be diligent and hard working and motivated people.

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Speaker 1: We know Lord that you encourage us to be faithful

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Speaker 1: in the context of our marriages. You encourage us, likewise, Lord,

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Speaker 1: to be people who glorify You in the ways in

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Speaker 1: which we speak and in the things that we choose

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Speaker 1: not to say. And we're also grateful Lord that as

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Speaker 1: you call us to live in such a way that

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Speaker 1: we honor you, you're not calling us to do this

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Speaker 1: in our own strength or in our own power, but

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Speaker 1: rather through faith in your son Jesus Christ. We're given

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Speaker 1: the strength, we're given the power, we're given the ability

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Speaker 1: to honor and please you. So Lord, we pray that

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Speaker 1: that would be the story of our lives, that we

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Speaker 1: would honor and glorify your name in all contexts. And

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Speaker 1: we're grateful Lord for your love toward us. We pray

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Speaker 1: Lord that we would walk with you faithfully each and

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Speaker 1: every day. And we thank you for your love, and

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Speaker 1: for your presence with us. We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen,