Proverbs 5 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Peril of Adultery

Warning Against Immorality

Pro 5:1

Pro 5:1My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
Lend your ear to my understanding,

Pro 5:2

Pro 5:2That you may preserve discretion,
And your lips may keep knowledge.

Pro 5:3

Pro 5:3For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey,
And her mouth is smoother than oil;

Pro 5:4

Pro 5:4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

Pro 5:5

Pro 5:5Her feet go down to death,
Her steps lay hold of hell.[fn]

Pro 5:6

Pro 5:6Lest you ponder her path of life—
Her ways are unstable;
You do not know them.

Pro 5:7

Pro 5:7Therefore hear me now, my children,
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Pro 5:8

Pro 5:8Remove your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house,

Pro 5:9

Pro 5:9Lest you give your honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;

Pro 5:10

Pro 5:10Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,
And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

Pro 5:11

Pro 5:11And you mourn at last,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,

Pro 5:12

Pro 5:12And say:
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!

Pro 5:13

Pro 5:13I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

Pro 5:14

Pro 5:14I was on the verge of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

Pro 5:15

Pro 5:15Drink water from your own cistern,
And running water from your own well.

Pro 5:16

Pro 5:16Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?

Pro 5:17

Pro 5:17Let them be only your own,
And not for strangers with you.

Pro 5:18

Pro 5:18Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Pro 5:19

Pro 5:19As a loving deer and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
And always be enraptured with her love.

Pro 5:20

Pro 5:20For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

Pro 5:21

Pro 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,
And He ponders all his paths.

Pro 5:22

Pro 5:22His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Pro 5:23

Pro 5:23He shall die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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