Thematic Bible
Proverbs 7:1 (show verse)
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Proverbs 7:2 (show verse)
Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Proverbs 7:3 (show verse)
Bind them upon thy fingers. Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
Proverbs 7:4 (show verse)
Say to wisdom, Thou are my sister, and call understanding [thy] kinswoman,
Proverbs 7:5 (show verse)
that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 7:6 (show verse)
For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice,
Proverbs 7:7 (show verse)
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding
Proverbs 7:8 (show verse)
passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house,
Proverbs 7:9 (show verse)
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Proverbs 7:10 (show verse)
And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart.
Proverbs 7:11 (show verse)
She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house.
Proverbs 7:12 (show verse)
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at every corner.
Proverbs 7:13 (show verse)
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him,
Proverbs 7:14 (show verse)
Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day.
Proverbs 7:15 (show verse)
Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Proverbs 7:16 (show verse)
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
Proverbs 7:17 (show verse)
I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:18 (show verse)
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.
Proverbs 7:19 (show verse)
For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey.
Proverbs 7:20 (show verse)
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.
Proverbs 7:21 (show verse)
With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.
Proverbs 7:22 (show verse)
He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Proverbs 7:23 (show verse)
till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.
Proverbs 7:24 (show verse)
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25 (show verse)
Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.
Proverbs 7:26 (show verse)
For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
Proverbs 7:27 (show verse)
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.