Proverbs 5:1-14 - Avoid Seduction

¹ My son, listen to my wisdom; bow your ear to my understanding; ² in order to keep discretion, that your lips may keep knowledge. ³ For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil; ⁴ but afterward she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell, ⁶ lest you should meditate on the path of life, her tracks are movable; you cannot know them.

⁷ And now hear me, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel; ¹⁰ that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger; ¹¹ and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction; ¹³ and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me! ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.