Proverbs 6

The Law of the Lord is perfect. It is an exact model and platform of religion; it is the standard of truth, the judge of controversies, the pole-star to direct us to heaven (Proverbs 6:23). The commandment is a lamp.

God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, etc. That God should give Christ to us, and not to the angels that fell; that the Sun of Righteousness should shine in our horizon; that he is revealed to us and not to others; what wonderful love is this (Proverbs 6:28…

If I see a smoke come out of the top of a chimney, what a fire burns within? "A wicked man walks with a perverse mouth — frowardness is in his heart" (Proverbs 6:12, 14). Solomon shows the reason why the mouth is so perverse: frowardness is in his heart.

In this sacred mine we dig, not for a wedge of gold, but a weight of glory. First, the Scripture is a sacred eye-salve to illuminate us (Proverbs 6:23): the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. [illegible], Clement of Alexandria.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel. Image worship enrages God (Proverbs 6:34). Jealousy is the rage of a man: It makes God divorce a people (Exodus 32:7). Your people, lo-ammi (Hosea 2:2). Plead with your mother, plead, for she is not my wife (Song of…

Would not Christ have his coat rent, and can he endure to have his body rent? Sure God will never father them who are not sons of peace: of all them who God hates, he is named for one, who is a sower of discord among brethren (Proverbs 6:19). 5. If God be our Father, then we lov…

The inanimate creatures are in motion: the sun goes its circuit, the fountain runs, the fire sparkles. And animate creatures; Solomon sends us to the ant and pismire to learn labor (Proverbs 6:6; Proverbs 30:35). The bee is the emblem of industry; some of the bees trim the honey…

Fifthly, adultery is a purgatory to the purse, as it wastes the body so the estate. (Proverbs 6:26) By the means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread. Whores are the Devil's horseleaches, sponges that will soon suck in all one's money.

What do virgins among harlots? The company of the wicked is very defiling, it is like going among those who have the plague (Proverbs 6:27). He that touches pitch shall be defiled.

When Eli's sons had sinned and profaned their priesthood, they turned their glory into shame; the text says they made themselves vile (1 Samuel 3:13). Sin casts an indelible blot on a man's name (Proverbs 6:32-33): Whoever commits adultery with a woman, a wound and dishonor shal…

Our conversation is in heaven, but our employments are here upon the earth, diligently taking pains in our callings, ever very busy in outward employments. Observe the Ant, learn her ways, and be wise (Proverbs 6), be busy like Ants, morning and evening, early and late, and labo…

It is the punishment of idolatry (Romans 1:24). It is a sin greater than theft (Proverbs 6:30, 32). The committers of this sin cut off themselves from human society, and become men of death, and women of death, according to God's law.

Lord, my Heart is not haughty, [〈…〉] neither do I exercise myself in great Matters, or in Things [〈◊◊〉] for me. Proverbs 6:16, 17. These six Things does the Lord [〈◊〉], [〈◊〉] serve are an Abomination unto him; a proud Look, &c.

God has his certain days, or appointed seasons of the exercise both of mercy and judgment. There are some seasons that are remarkable times of wrath, that are laid out by God for that purpose, for his awful visitation, and the executions of his anger; which times are called days…

Least wee should mistake Christs meaning, wee must knowe that there bee two kindes of care; a godly moderate care; and a distrustfull carking care. The moderate honest care is inioyned us by Gods commandment: Prov. 6. 6. wisdom sends the sluggard to learne diligence and prouiden…

The second step or degree of this love, and the similitude illustrating it, is in these words, jealousy is cruel as the grave: it is the prosecution of the same purpose, only, what she called love before, is here termed jealousy; jealousy may be taken in a good sense, or an evil…

Indeed such necessity does somewhat mitigate the heinousness of the offense; but that is not at all considerable in the direction of our practice, since it continues a sin still, and deserves eternal damnation. The wise man tells us (Proverbs 6:30-31): Men do not despise a thief…

But, fourthly; We must honor our parents, by hearkening to their good instructions, and imitating their godly practices. So (Proverbs 6:20): My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother. For although good instruction be for the matter of it, alw…

Secondly, consider, that it is a sin most contrary to the nature of God, who is truth itself; a sin that he hates and abominates. (Proverbs 6:17) These six things does the Lord hate; indeed, seven are an abomination to him; a proud look, a lying tongue, etc. And (Proverbs 12:22)…

And therefore says the Psalmist (Psalm 44:20-21), "If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched forth our hands to a false God: shall not God search out this? for he knows the secrets of the heart." Thirdly, jealousy as it is searching and inquisitive, so it is an angr…

For although there be a shame consequent upon the act of every sin; yet the credit and reputation of a man is never so deeply blemished, nor so foully stained by any sin as that of adultery. Proverbs 6:32-33: Whoever commits adultery with a woman, lacks understanding: he that do…

The Devil is the father of lies, and liars (John 8:44) — and which is most eligible, to be children of God, or children of the Devil? A lying tongue is one of the seven abominations which the Lord hates (Proverbs 6:16-17). And is there any good you can get by your lying, compara…

1. By the heart in divine soliloquies, and heavenly meditations, in warming notions and elevating motions, these keep the Christian good company, so that he is never less alone than when alone; as a very heathen could say: Scripture truths are sweet and satisfying companions in…

Thus Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner gave themselves over to wickedness and strange sins; and then justice quickly trussed them up for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. That man is even ripe for hell, that is become a contriver of…

If then he should not reap and mow, and gather in his store; how should he live, when for the snow he can't move out of door? (Proverbs 10:5) The little ants, and painstaking bees; by nature's instinct led; These have their summer granaries, for winter furnished. (Proverbs 6:6-7…

Or if the Scripture speaks of them as men, yet it allows them but the external shape of men, not the unde[•]standing of men. Among the Jews they were called Fools in Israel, 2 Samuel 13:13. and so Proverbs 6:32. Whoso commits adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding. And sin…

The many good fruits which the Holy Spirit notes to proceed from due reproof do show that it is a duty of which parents ought to make conscience as they desire to promote the good of their children: and so much the rather because many good fruits redound to the parents that repr…

Psalm 19:9 and 43:3 and 119:105, 130. Proverbs 6:23. Isaiah 9:2. Hosea 6:5. Matthew 4:16 and 5:14. John 3:20, 21: It is a Light so shining with the majesty of its Author, as that it manifests itself to be his.

2. If sins be debts, and an increasing debt, so that man is ever treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath; it presses us to be more careful to get out of this condition. Says Solomon (Proverbs 6:3-5), If you are in debt, flee as a swift roe from the hand of the hunter, and a…

When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.”—Proverbs 6:20-23. You have here before you the advice of King Sol…

A Sermon (Number 1017) Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, October twenty-second, 1871 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, by C. H. Spurgeon. "When you awake, it shall talk with you."—Proverbs 6:22. It is a very happy circumstance when the commandment of our father and the l…

Fear is that flaming Sword, which turns every way to keep sin from entring. Proverbs 6:16. Fear stands Sentinel in the Soul, and is ever upon it's Watch-Tower.

When we have a good store of the word of God it will burst out in prayer. 4. It will be a great help to us in all businesses and affairs (Proverbs 6:21-22). Speaking of the precepts of God, Bind them upon your heart, when you go it shall lead you; when you sleep it shall keep yo…

It is meditation that makes truths always ready and present with us. (Proverbs 6:21-22) Bind them continually upon your heart; when you go, it shall lead you; when you wake, it shall talk with you. But I forbear.

2. To keep it in our hearts is to have an affection to it. Keeping the Word relates to our chariness and tenderness of it, when we are as chary of the word as a man would be of a precious jewel (Proverbs 6:20-21). My son keep your father's commandments, bind them continually upo…

I observed out of the 18th verse, when the saints called upon God, they do not say, Lord make a plainer law, but Lord give me better eyes. We are dark, and need the illumination of the Spirit; the Scriptures are light (Proverbs 6:23). The commandment is a lamp, and the law is li…

One truth or another will rise up in defiance of the temptation. The greater impulsion to duty, the more of the Law of God, the more it urges the conscience (Proverbs 6:22). It makes us more useful in all our relations (1 Peter 3:7).

We hate that most which is contrary to our nature; so it is contrary to God's nature. There are six things God hates, and a lying tongue is one of them; twice it is mentioned (Proverbs 6:17, 19), and (Proverbs 12:22): Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal…

It is elsewhere called the good way wherein we should walk (1 Kings 8:36), and the way of God (Psalm 27:11), and the way of understanding (Proverbs 9:6), and the way of holiness (Isaiah 55:8), and the way of righteousness (2 Peter 2:21): Better they had not known the way of righ…

Though the Gospel has enough in it to evidence itself to the consciences of men, yet God must make use of his creating power before this light can break in upon our hearts with any efficacy and influence. The Law is light (Proverbs 6:23), yet not comprehended by darkness. The li…

In the original it is eyes full of the adulteress, and the eye kindles impure flames in the heart. (Proverbs 6:25) Lust not after her beauty in your heart, neither let her take you with her eyelids: gazing on the beauty of women kindles foul flames within the breast, and we feel…

1. The law of God does universally bind, and the obligation thereof never ceases; so as there can be no truce with sin for a while, nor any intermission of grace for a moment. (Proverbs 6:21-22) O my son, keep your father's commandments, and forsake not the law of your mother: b…

(Psalm 119:11) Your word have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you. And (Proverbs 6:21-22), bind his commandments upon your heart, tie them upon your neck. When we look for the deep implanting of the word in our hearts, this is the sound heart here described.

3 The creatures bear witness against the idleness of man, and the sinfulness thereof: Man was not to be idle in Paradise, every man should have a calling to follow, and should follow his calling; and he (says the Apostle) that will not labor, must not eat; of idleness comes no g…

As it is the best of comforts to have assurance of the love of God, and to be sealed to the day of redemption; so it is the saddest of judgments to be given up (as it is three times in one place, Romans 1) to their lusts, to a hardened heart, a seared conscience, a reprobate min…

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burnt? Can he go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned (Proverbs 6:27-28)? Reason is but a carnal weapon, but our enemy is spiritual; and therefore the weapons of our warfare must not be carnal; he must be spiritually…

The light of God's holiness and wisdom, which by sin are wronged, and the law which is transgressed — these are both lights: God is light and in him is no darkness (John 1:5). The law is a light and the commandment a lamp to our feet (Proverbs 6:23). And by the sight of both the…

Sectaries unite to set the church's peace on fire. These are the persons God's soul hates (Proverbs 6:19): sowers of discord among brothers. These are the children of a curse (Deuteronomy 27:24): Cursed be he that smites his neighbor secretly — that is, who backbites and so sets…

They sacrifice their lives to Bacchus; they make haste, but not to heaven. They make haste to fulfill their lusts (Proverbs 6:18); they make haste to swear, to be drunk; they are swift to shed blood (Isaiah 59:7): their feet run to evil. The sinner, in regard of the haste he mak…

7. There is an evil heart of unbelief to depart from the Living God (Hebrews 3:12). 8. A heart that devises, plows, or delves wicked imaginations (Proverbs 6:18). As (Proverbs 3:29): Plow not evil against your neighbor.