Thematic Bible

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments by thee.

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them in the table of thine heart.

Proverbs 7:4

Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister," and call understanding thy kinswoman:

Proverbs 7:5

That she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words.

Proverbs 7:6

For out of the window of my house I looked through the trellis,

Proverbs 7:7

and beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool

Proverbs 7:8

going over the streets, by the corner, in the way toward the harlot's house;

Proverbs 7:9

in the twilight of the evening, when it began now to be night and dark.

Proverbs 7:10

And behold, there met him a woman with open tokens of a harlot. Only her heart was hid.

Proverbs 7:11

She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house.

Proverbs 7:12

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner.

Proverbs 7:13

She caught the young man, kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying,

Proverbs 7:14

"I had a vow to pay, and this day I perform it.

Proverbs 7:15

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face, and so I have found thee.

Proverbs 7:16

I have decked my bed with coverings and clothes of Egypt.

Proverbs 7:17

My bed have I made to smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon.

Proverbs 7:18

Come, let us lie together, and take our pleasure till it be daylight.

Proverbs 7:19

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone far off.

Proverbs 7:20

He hath taken the bag of money with him: who can tell when he cometh home?"

Proverbs 7:21

Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him

Proverbs 7:22

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

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

Hear me now therefore, O my son, and mark the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 7:25

Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths.

Proverbs 7:26

For many a one hath she wounded and cast down, yea many a strong man hath she slain.

Proverbs 7:27

Her houses are the way to hell, where men go down into the chambers of death.