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New Testament
Proverbs 5
Chapters 5 to 9
Two Women Compete for Our Love
Seventh Address to a Son:
Wisdom Teaches You to Avoid Adultery
51My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Open your ears to my understanding,
2so that you may hold on to insight,
so your lips may guard knowledge,
3because the lips of an immoral woman drip with honey,
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death.
Her ways wander, but she doesn't realize it.
7Now, you sons, listen to me.
Do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your way far from her.
Do not go near the doorway of her house.
9If you do, you will give your wealth to others
and your years to a cruel person.
10If you do, your work will satisfy strangers,
and the results of your labor will end up in another man's house.
11You will groan when your end comes,
when your body and flesh are consumed.
12Then you will say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
and my heart despised warnings!
13I did not listen to my teachers' voices,
and I did not open my ears to hear my instructors.
in the midst of the assembly of the community.”
Encouragement to Faithfulness in Marriage
15Drink water from your own cistern.
Drink running water from your own well.
16Why should the water from your springs flow out into the street,
your streams of water into the public squares?
17They should be yours, yours alone.
They are not for strangers to share with you.
18Let your fountain be blessed.
Obtain your joy from the wife you married in your youth,
19who is a loving doe and a graceful deer.
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
Always be intoxicated with her love.
20Why should you be led astray, my son, by an immoral woman?
Why embrace a woman who is not your wife?
21For the ways of a man are in front of the eyes of the Lord,
and he weighs all of his paths.
22The evil deeds of the wicked man will capture him,
and he will be bound by the ropes of his sin.
23He will die for lack of discipline,
and he will go astray because of his great stupidity.