Thematic Bible

Proverbs 5:1

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my intelligence;

Proverbs 5:2

that thou may keep council and that thy lips may conserve knowledge.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of the strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 5:4

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death, her steps uphold Sheol,

Proverbs 5:6

lest thou should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable; thou shalt not know them.

Proverbs 5:7

Hear me now therefore, O ye sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:9

lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel,

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in the house of a stranger,

Proverbs 5:11

and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed

Proverbs 5:12

and say, How have I hated chastening and my heart despised reproof

Proverbs 5:13

and have not obeyed the voice of those who chastened me, nor inclined my ear to those that instructed me!

Proverbs 5:14

I have been in almost every kind of evil, in the midst of society and of the congregation.

Proverbs 5:15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well.

Proverbs 5:16

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of thy waters in the streets.

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only thine own and not for strangers with thee.

Proverbs 5:18

Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Proverbs 5:19

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love, without eyes for anyone else.

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a woman belonging to someone else, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 5:21

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he weighs all his goings.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take hold of the wicked, and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins.

Proverbs 5:23

He shall die because he did not submit to chastening; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.