Thematic Bible
Proverbs 7:1 (show verse)
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments by thee.
Proverbs 7:2 (show verse)
Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.
Proverbs 7:3 (show verse)
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them in the table 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 she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words.
Proverbs 7:6 (show verse)
For out of the window of my house I looked through the trellis,
Proverbs 7:7 (show verse)
and beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool
Proverbs 7:8 (show verse)
going over the streets, by the corner, in the way toward the harlot's house;
Proverbs 7:9 (show verse)
in the twilight of the evening, when it began now to be night and dark.
Proverbs 7:10 (show verse)
And behold, there met him a woman with open tokens of a harlot. Only her heart was hid.
Proverbs 7:11 (show verse)
She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house.
Proverbs 7:12 (show verse)
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner.
Proverbs 7:13 (show verse)
She caught the young man, kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying,
Proverbs 7:14 (show verse)
"I had a vow to pay, and this day I perform it.
Proverbs 7:15 (show verse)
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face, and so I have found thee.
Proverbs 7:16 (show verse)
I have decked my bed with coverings and clothes of Egypt.
Proverbs 7:17 (show verse)
My bed have I made to smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:18 (show verse)
Come, let us lie together, and take our pleasure till it be daylight.
Proverbs 7:19 (show verse)
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone far off.
Proverbs 7:20 (show verse)
He hath taken the bag of money with him: who can tell when he cometh home?"
Proverbs 7:21 (show verse)
Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him
Proverbs 7:22 (show verse)
suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -
Proverbs 7:23 (show verse)
so long till she hath wounded his liver with her dart: like as if a bird hasted to the snare, not knowing that the peril of his life lieth thereupon.
Proverbs 7:24 (show verse)
Hear me now therefore, O my son, and mark the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25 (show verse)
Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths.
Proverbs 7:26 (show verse)
For many a one hath she wounded and cast down, yea many a strong man hath she slain.
Proverbs 7:27 (show verse)
Her houses are the way to hell, where men go down into the chambers of death.