Proverbs 3:29
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29 Do not plan harm against your neighbor
who lives trustingly beside you.(A)
Proverbs 3:29
Common English Bible
29 Don’t plan to harm your neighbor
who trusts and lives near you.
Proverbs 6:1
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Practical Admonitions
6 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself to another,[a](A)
Footnotes
- 6.1 Or a stranger
Proverbs 6:1
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Wise advice
6 My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor
or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,
Proverbs 6:3
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3 So do this, my child, and save yourself,
for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
go, hurry,[a] and plead with your neighbor.
Footnotes
- 6.3 Or humble yourself
Proverbs 6:3
Common English Bible
3 Do this, my son, to get out of it,
for you have come under the control of your neighbor.
So go, humble yourself,[a] and pester your neighbor.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Heb uncertain
Proverbs 16:29
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29 The violent entice their neighbors
and lead them in a way that is not good.(A)
Proverbs 16:29
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29 Violent people entice their neighbors
and walk them down a path that isn’t good.
Proverbs 21:10
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10 The souls of the wicked desire evil;
their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.(A)
Proverbs 21:10
Common English Bible
10 Wicked people desire evil;
their neighbors receive no mercy from them.
Proverbs 25:17
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17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
lest the neighbor become weary of you and hate you.
Proverbs 25:17
Common English Bible
17 Don’t spend too much time in your neighbor’s house.
Otherwise, they’ll get fed up with you and hate you.
Proverbs 27:10
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10 Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
than kindred who are far away.(A)
Proverbs 27:10
Common English Bible
10 Don’t desert your friend or a friend of your family;
don’t go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes.
Better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Proverbs 27:14
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14 Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice,
rising early in the morning,
will be counted as cursing.
Proverbs 27:14
Common English Bible
14 Greeting a neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning
will be viewed as a curse.
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