Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son, be attentive to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
That you may preserve discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of an immoral 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 two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 (show verse)
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on sheol.
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, that you can not know them.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
Lest you give your honor unto others, and your years unto the merciless:
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets?
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
Proverbs 5:20 (show verse)
And why will you, my son, be infatuated with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.