Thematic Bible
Proverbs 7:1 (show verse)
My son, keep my words and store up my commandments within you.
Proverbs 7:2 (show verse)
Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
Proverbs 7:3 (show verse)
Bind them upon your fingers; write them upon the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:4 (show verse)
Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinsman,
Proverbs 7:5 (show verse)
so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 7:6 (show verse)
For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,
Proverbs 7:7 (show verse)
and I saw among the simple ones, among the youths, a young man with no 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, there a woman met him, with the dress of a harlot and a guarded heart.
Proverbs 7:11 (show verse)
She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay in her house;
Proverbs 7:12 (show verse)
now she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.
Proverbs 7:13 (show verse)
And she caught him and kissed him, and with a hard face she said to him,
Proverbs 7:14 (show verse)
I have peace offerings with me; today I have paid my vows.
Proverbs 7:15 (show verse)
so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you.
Proverbs 7:16 (show verse)
I have decked my bed with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen.
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 delight ourselves with caresses.
Proverbs 7:19 (show verse)
For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey;
Proverbs 7:20 (show verse)
he has taken a bag of silver with him and will come home at the day of the full moon.
Proverbs 7:21 (show verse)
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Proverbs 7:22 (show verse)
He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Proverbs 7:23 (show verse)
until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it is for his soul.
Proverbs 7:24 (show verse)
And now listen to me, sons, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25 (show verse)
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not go astray in her paths.
Proverbs 7:26 (show verse)
For she has cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Proverbs 7:27 (show verse)
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the rooms of death.