Proverbs 5:1-14 - Avoid Seduction

¹ My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my intelligence; ² that thou may keep council and that thy lips may conserve knowledge. ³ For the lips of the strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil, ⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death, her steps uphold Sheol, ⁶ lest thou should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable; thou shalt not know them.

⁷ Hear me now therefore, O ye sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel, ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed ¹² and say, How have I hated chastening and my heart despised reproof ¹³ and have not obeyed the voice of those who chastened me, nor inclined my ear to those that instructed me! ¹⁴ I have been in almost every kind of evil, in the midst of society and of the congregation.