Proverbs 6:12-26

¹²A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

¹³he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

¹⁴deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.

¹⁵Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly: in a moment shall he be broken, and without remedy.

¹⁶These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁸a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;

¹⁹a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

²⁰My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

²¹bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:

²²when thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

²⁴to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

²⁵Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

²⁶for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.