"You have been snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth" - Proverbs 6:2


Proverbs
Chapter 6


1] My son, if you have become surety to your neighbor, given your hand in pledge to another,
2] You have been snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth;
3] So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's power: Go, hurry, stir up your neighbor!
4] Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids;
5] Free yourself as a gazelle from the snare, or as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6] Go to the ant, O sluggard, study her ways and learn wisdom;
7] For though she has no chief, no commander or ruler,
8] She procures her food in the summer, stores up her provisions in the harvest.
9] How long, O sluggard, will you rest? when will you rise from your sleep?
10] A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest--
11] Then will poverty come upon you like a highway man, and want like an armed man.
12] A scoundrel, a villain, is he who deals in crooked talk.
13] He winks his eyes, shuffles his feet, makes signs with his fingers;
14] He has perversity in his heart, is always plotting evil, sows discord.
15] Therefore suddenly ruin comes upon him; in an instant he is crushed beyond cure.
16] There are six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to him;
17] Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
18] A heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
19] The false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
20] Observe, my son, your father's bidding, and reject not your mother's teaching;
21] Keep them fastened over your heart always, put them around your neck;
23] For the bidding is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and a way to life are the reproofs of discipline;
24] To keep you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25] Lust not in your heart after her beauty, let her not captivate you with her glance!
26] For the price of a loose woman may be scarcely a loaf of bread, But if she is married, she is a trap for your precious life.
27] Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his garments not burned?
28] Or can a man walk on live coals, and his feet not be scorched?
29] So with him who goes in to his neighbor's wife-- none who touches her shall go unpunished.
30] Men despise not the thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry;
31] Yet if he be caught he must pay back sevenfold; all the wealth of his house he may yield up.
32] But he who commits adultery is a fool; he who would destroy himself does it.
33] A degrading beating will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away;
34] For vindictive is the husband's wrath, he will have no pity on the day of vengeance;
35] He will not consider any restitution, nor be satisfied with the greatest gifts.


Source: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/proverbs/proverb6.htm