Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Listen to my understanding.
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
That way you will maintain discretion and your lips will keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
The lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb. Her mouth 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 take hold of the grave.
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
She does not ponder the path of life. Her unstable ways she does not know.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
Hear me now my son. Do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
You will give your honor (majesty) to others and your years to the cruel one.
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work.
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
You mourn at last, when your flesh and your body are consumed.
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
You say: How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof.
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
I did not obey the voice of my teachers. I did not listen to my instructors!
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
I was very near total ruin in the midst of the congregation.
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink water from your own cistern. Drink running water from your own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Should your waters overflow in the streets, like streams of water in public places?
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be yours alone. Do not share with strangers.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love.
Proverbs 5:20 (show verse)
Why will you be intimate with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah. He ponders all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.