Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my intelligence;
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
that thou may keep council and that thy lips may conserve knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of the strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil,
Proverbs 5:4 (show verse)
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 (show verse)
Her feet go down to death, her steps uphold Sheol,
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
lest thou should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable; thou shalt not know them.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
Hear me now therefore, O ye sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel,
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in the house of a stranger,
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
and say, How have I hated chastening and my heart despised reproof
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
and have not obeyed the voice of those who chastened me, nor inclined my ear to those that instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
I have been in almost every kind of evil, in the midst of society and of the congregation.
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of thy waters in the streets.
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be only thine own and not for strangers with thee.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he weighs all his goings.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
His own iniquities shall take hold of the wicked, and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He shall die because he did not submit to chastening; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.