Proverbs 6:1-35

Memory Verse: 5

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I. Humbly Free Yourself (6:1-6)

1. What does it mean to put up security and stick hands in pledge? (1-2) How are these a trap? (11:15, 22:25-27) What can be done to free of such pledges? (3) How can we press our plea?

2. What should be our attitude to be rid of security and pledges? (4) What is the maximum speed of a gazelle when it's life is threatened? (5) How do birds react when they are in a snare? What can be learned about our resolve to be free?

II. Sluggard & Villain (6:7-19)

3. What is a sluggard and what are they told to do? (6) What is amazing about an ant colony, one of most productive builders in the animal kingdom? (7) What is a common goal of the ant colony that a sluggard is to learn from? (8)

4. What is the folly of doing nothing productive? What is the mind trap of a sluggard? (10) What happens when we don't keep to a mindset and will to continue in our labors?

5. Why do scoundrels and villains communicate his code and secret lives? (12-14) Though it may tarry what is sure to happen to scoundrels and villains? (15)

6. Considering what the Lord hates and detests what can be learned from him? What is haughty eyes? Why is merely contemplating wicked schemes so bad? (18) What is the mindset of a person who rushes into evil? What is the intent of pouring out lies and stirring up dissension? (19)

III. The Prostitute Reduces You to a Loaf of Bread (6:20-35)

7. What are a father's command and a mother's teaching compared to? (20-23) Why is the command to keep from sexual immorality needed? (24)

8. What is meant by being reduced to a loaf of bread? (25-26) How is scooping fire in the lap a good analogy to adultery? Does adultery ever go unpunished? (29)

9. What happens to anyone who is so poor that they cannot obtain food? Is crime every justifiable? (31)

10. Why is adultery self-destructive? (32) What is jealousy and is it wrong to be jealous? (33-34) Why is romantic jealousy expressed with physical punishment by so many?