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Proverbs 6:3

WEB

3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

KJV

3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

BSB

3then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself,[+] and press your plea with your neighbor.

FBV

3So this is what you have to do. You need to get out of it, because you've put yourself in that person's power. Go to your neighbor in all humility and ask him to release you from the commitment.

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Extra References

James 4:10

10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Psalms 31:8

8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

2 Samuel 24:14

14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

Exodus 10:3

3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

2 Chronicles 36:12

12He did that which was evil in the LORD his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the LORD’s mouth.

2 Chronicles 12:5

5Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “The LORD says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’”