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Proverbs 5 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:1 - My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:2 - That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:3 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:4 - But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5 - Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:6 - Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:7 - Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8 - Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:9 - Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:11 - And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:12 - And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:13 - And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:14 - I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:17 - Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:18 - Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:19 - Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:21 - For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:22 - His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:23 - He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769.
Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. Within the United Kingdom, the rights to the KJV are vested in the Crown.

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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

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