Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and listen closely to my insight,
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
so you may carefully practice discretion and your lips preserve knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 5:4 (show verse)
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 (show verse)
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol.
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
You aren't thinking about where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize it.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
Now, children, listen to me. Don't turn away from what I am saying.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Keep far away from her, and don't go near the entrance to her house,
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years;
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners.
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
You will cry out in anguish when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
I did not obey my teachers and did not listen to my instructors.
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation."
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.
Proverbs 5:20 (show verse)
Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly.