Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son, listen to my wisdom; bow your ear to my understanding;
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
in order to keep discretion, that your lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 5:4 (show verse)
but afterward she is as 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 hell,
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
lest you should meditate on the path of life, her tracks are movable; you cannot know them.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
And now hear me, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel;
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away,
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me!
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
I was almost in all evil 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 overflowing spring be scattered abroad as rivers of waters in the streets.
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be only your own, and not 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)
Like the loving deer and pleasant 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 ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He watches 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 sin.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.