. Genesis . Proverbs . One Chapter for each day of the Month Proverbs . 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ..... Proverbs 5 .....
........ Pitfalls of Immorality
5:01 .. My son, give attention to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;
5:02 .. That you may observe discretion and your lips may reserve knowledge.
5:03 .. For the lips of an adulteress drip honey and smoother than oil is her speech;
5:04 .. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:05 .. Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol.
5:06 .. She does not ponder the path of life; Her ways are unstable, she does not know it.
5:07 .. Now then, my sons, listen to me and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
5:08 .. Keep your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house,
5:09 .. Or you will give your vigor to others and your years to the cruel one;
5:10 .. And strangers will be filled with your strength and your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;
5:11 .. And you groan at your final end, when your flesh and your body are consumed;
5:12 .. And you say, “How I have hated instruction! and my heart spurned reproof!
5:13 .. I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to my instructors!
5:14 .. I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
5:15 .. Drink water from your own cistern and fresh water from your own well.
5:16 .. Should your springs be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?
5:17 .. Let them be yours alone and not for strangers with you.
5:18 .. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
5:19 .. As a loving hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; be exhilarated always with her love.
5:20 .. For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
5:21 .. For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He watches all his paths.
5:22 .. His own iniquities will capture the wicked, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.
5:23 .. He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
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