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Proverbs 5 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 5
The Peril of Adultery
Warning Against Immorality
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1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
​​Lend your ear to my understanding,
2 ​​That you may preserve discretion,
​​And your lips may keep knowledge.
3 ​​For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey,
​​And her mouth is smoother than oil;
4 ​​But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
​​Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 ​​Her feet go down to death,
​​Her steps lay hold of hell.[fn]
6 ​​Lest you ponder her path of life—
​​Her ways are unstable;
​​You do not know them.
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7 ​​Therefore hear me now, my children,
​​And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 ​​Remove your way far from her,
​​And do not go near the door of her house,
9 ​​Lest you give your honor to others,
​​And your years to the cruel one;
10 ​​Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,
​​And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
11 ​​And you mourn at last,
​​When your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 ​​And say:
​​“How I have hated instruction,
​​And my heart despised correction!
13 ​​I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
​​Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14 ​​I was on the verge of total ruin,
​​In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
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15 ​​Drink water from your own cistern,
​​And running water from your own well.
16 ​​Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
​​Streams of water in the streets?
17 ​​Let them be only your own,
​​And not for strangers with you.
18 ​​Let your fountain be blessed,
​​And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 ​​As a loving deer and a graceful doe,
​​Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
​​And always be enraptured with her love.
20 ​​For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
​​And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
​
21 ​​For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,
​​And He ponders all his paths.
22 ​​His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
​​And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
23 ​​He shall die for lack of instruction,
​​And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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