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 thine heart.
Proverbs 7:4 (show verse)
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Proverbs 7:5 (show verse)
That they may keep thee from the woman belonging to someone else, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 7:6 (show verse)
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement
Proverbs 7:7 (show verse)
and 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, in the black and dark night;
Proverbs 7:10 (show verse)
and, behold, a woman met him with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.
Proverbs 7:11 (show verse)
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not abide in her house:
Proverbs 7:12 (show verse)
Now without, now in the streets, she lies in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs 7:13 (show verse)
So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him,
Proverbs 7:14 (show verse)
I had promised sacrifices of peace; today I have payed my vows.
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 decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen 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 loves.
Proverbs 7:19 (show verse)
For the husband is not at home; he is gone a long journey:
Proverbs 7:20 (show verse)
He has taken a bag of money with him and will come home at the appointed feast day.
Proverbs 7:21 (show verse)
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she persuaded him.
Proverbs 7:22 (show verse)
He went after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Proverbs 7:23 (show verse)
until the arrow pierces through his liver. He is as a bird struggling in the snare and not knowing that it is against his own life.
Proverbs 7:24 (show verse)
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye sons, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25 (show verse)
Let not thine heart decline to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.
Proverbs 7:26 (show verse)
For she has caused many to fall down dead; yea, all the strong men have been slain by her.
Proverbs 7:27 (show verse)
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.