April 10th, 2008 Proverbs 5
Proverbs 5:1 ~ My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Proverbs 5:2 ~ That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 ~ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 5:4 ~ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 ~ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Proverbs 5:6 ~ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Proverbs 5:7 ~ Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 ~ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Proverbs 5:9 ~ Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Proverbs 5:10 ~ Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Proverbs 5:11 ~ And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12 ~ And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 5:13 ~ And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14 ~ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs 5:15 ~ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16 ~ Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Proverbs 5:17 ~ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
Proverbs 5:18 ~ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 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.
Proverbs 5:20 ~ And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 5:21 ~ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Proverbs 5:22 ~ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 5:23 ~ He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.