Proverbs 6:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor’s power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:14

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great, but let me not fall into human hands.”

2 Chronicles 12:5

Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the officers of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak and said to them, “Thus says the Lord: You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.”

2 Chronicles 36:12

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before the prophet Jeremiah who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.

Psalm 31:8

and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may serve me.

Proverbs 6:2

you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.

Proverbs 6:4

Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.