Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
Proverbs 5:4 (show verse)
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 (show verse)
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Proverbs 5:20 (show verse)
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.