Proverbs 6:1-19

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Practical Warnings

6 My son, if you have put up ^(A)security for your neighbor,
    have ^(B)given your pledge for a stranger,
²if you are ^(C)snared in the words of your mouth,
    caught in the words of your mouth,
³then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
    go, hasten,^[a] and ^(D)plead urgently with your neighbor.
⁴^(E)Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
⁵save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,^[b]
    ^(F)like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶^(G)Go to ^(H)the ant, O ^(I)sluggard;
    consider her ways, and ^(J)be wise.
⁷^(K)Without having any chief,
    ^(L)officer, or ruler,
⁸she prepares her bread ^(M)in summer
    and ^(N)gathers her food in harvest.
⁹^(O)How long will you lie there, ^(P)O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?
¹⁰^(Q)A little sleep, a little slumber,
    ^(R)a little ^(S)folding of the hands to rest,
¹¹^(T)and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

¹²^(U)A worthless person, a wicked man,
    goes about with ^(V)crooked speech,
¹³^(W)winks with his eyes, signals^[c] with his feet,
    points with his finger,
¹⁴with ^(X)perverted heart ^(Y)devises evil,
    continually ^(Z)sowing discord;
¹⁵therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
    ^(AA)in a moment he will be broken ^(AB)beyond healing.

¹⁶There are ^(AC)six things that the Lord hates,
    ^(AD)seven that are an abomination to him:
¹⁷^(AE)haughty eyes, ^(AF)a lying tongue,
    and ^(AG)hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸^(AH)a heart that devises wicked plans,
    ^(AI)feet that make haste to run to evil,
¹⁹^(AJ)a false witness who ^(AK)breathes out lies,
    and one who ^(AL)sows discord among brothers.

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Footnotes

Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself
Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter
Proverbs 6:13 Hebrew scrapes

1 John 5:1-12

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Overcoming the World

5 ^(A)Everyone who believes that ^(B)Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and ^(C)everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. ²^(D)By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³For ^(E)this is the love of God, that we ^(F)keep his commandments. And ^(G)his commandments are not burdensome. ⁴For ^(H)everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—^(I)our faith. ⁵Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes ^(J)that Jesus is the Son of God?

Testimony Concerning the Son of God

⁶This is he who came ^(K)by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And ^(L)the Spirit is the one who testifies, because ^(M)the Spirit is the truth. ⁷For there are three that testify: ⁸the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. ⁹^(N)If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God ^(O)that he has borne concerning his Son. ¹⁰Whoever believes in the Son of God ^(P)has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God ^(Q)has made him a liar, ^(R)because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. ¹¹And this is the testimony, that God gave us ^(S)eternal life, and ^(T)this life is in his Son. ¹²^(U)Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

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Matthew 11:16-24

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¹⁶“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,

¹⁷“‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

¹⁸For John came ^(A)neither eating ^(B)nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ ¹⁹The Son of Man came ^(C)eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, ^(D)a friend of ^(E)tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”^[a]

Woe to Unrepentant Cities

²⁰^(F)Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. ²¹^(G)“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in ^(H)Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ²²^(I)But I tell you, it will be more bearable on ^(J)the day of judgment for ^(K)Tyre and Sidon than for you. ²³And you, ^(L)Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to ^(M)Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴^(N)But I tell you that ^(O)it will be more tolerable on ^(P)the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”