Passage Research
Proverbs 6 — Sermon Preparation
A chapter of clustered warnings against reckless debt guarantees, laziness, troublemaking, six things the LORD hates, and the ruinous path of adultery. Below is a research summary for Proverbs 6, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 35
- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 9
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Proverbs 6 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רֵעַ | rêaʻ | H7453 | 4 | associate |
| אִשָּׁה | ʼishshâh | H802 | 5 | woman |
| שֵׁנָה | shênâh | H8142 | 3 | sleep |
| הָלַךְ | hâlak | H1980 | 4 | walk |
| לֵב | lêb | H3820 | 4 | heart, feelings |
| מְעַט | mᵉʻaṭ | H4592 | 3 | little, few |
| נֶפֶשׁ | nephesh | H5315 | 4 | breathing creature, animal |
How preachers through history handled this text
9 public-domain excerpts on Proverbs 6, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly became our Surety, when we were strangers and enemies. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Proverbs 6:20–35 (Public Domain)
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