Read the chapter carefully. AND answer the following questions one by one. 2. 6:1-5 = What does it mean to put up security for your neighbor or strike hands in pledge for another? Why should we not do this? (Cf. Prov. 11:15; 22:7, 26-27) What is a person lacking when they do this? (Prov. 17:18) What does Solomon say we should do if we find ourselves in this predicament? (Cf. Mt. 5:25-26) Does this mean we should never help someone in this area? What guidelines should we go by? 3. 6:6-11 = What truths can we learn from the ant? (Cf. Prov. 27:23-27; 30:25) What consequences come upon the sluggard? (Cf. Prov. 18:9; 24:30-34; Eccl. 10:18) What can these people become like? (Cf. II Thes. 3:11; I Tim. 5:11-15) What should be done with such a person? (Cf. II Thes. 3:6-15) What should we be like instead? (Cf. I Thes. 4:11-12; Tit. 3:14; I Pet. 2:11-12, 15) 4. 6:12-19 = What are the characteristics of a scoundrel and villain? (Cf. Prov. 10:10; 16:27-30) What does he stir up? (Cf. Prov. 10:12; 16:28) What will happen to him? What seven things does the LORD hate? (Cf. Ps. 5:4-6; Prov. 8:13; 26:24-26; Zech. 8:16-17) How should we live instead? (Cf. Ps. 133; Ro. 12:9-14:1; I Pet. 2:11-12) 5. 6:20-35 = Why should Solomon’s sons keep their father and mother’s commands? (Ps. 119:105) What will they keep him from? Is she/he alluring? (Cf. Job 31:1) What are the consequences of such a relationship? Why is an adulterer despised? What is his lot? Why? How should the church respond to such sin? (Cf. Mt. 18:15-20; I Cor. 5) What should be the goal of church discipline?
