Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive 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 lead straight to the grave.
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
Proverbs 5:20 (show verse)
But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord's eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person's paths.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.