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Proverbs 5 📜 📕 ↷
Avoiding Immorality
1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and to my prudence incline thine ear,📜💬📚
2 that thou mayst keep cogitations, and thy lips preserve discipline.📜💬📚
3 Attend not to the deceit of a woman: for the lips of an harlot are as a honey comb distilling, and her throat neater than oil.📜💬📚
4 But her later ends are bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two edged sword.📜💬📚
5 Her feet go down into death, and her steps penetrate unto hell.📜💬📚
6 They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unsearchable.📜💬📚
7 Now therefore my son hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.📜💬📚
8 Make thy way far from her, and approach not to the doors of her house.📜💬📚
9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.📜💬📚
10 Lest perhaps strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in an other man's house,📜💬📚
11 and thou mourn in the end, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:📜💬📚
12 Why have I detested discipline, and my heart consented not to reprehensions,📜💬📚
13 nor I heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined mine ear to masters?📜💬📚
14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the Church and of the synagogue.📜💬📚
15 Drink water of thine own cistern, and the streams of thy well:📜💬📚
16 Let thy fountains be derived abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters,📜💬📚
17 Have them alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.📜💬📚
18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the woman of thy youth:📜💬📚
19 a hind most dear, and a most grateful fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all time, in her love be thou delighted continually.📜💬📚
20 Why art thou seduced my son of a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of an other?📜💬📚
21 Our Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.📜💬📚
22 His own iniquities take the impious, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his sins.📜💬📚
23 He shall die because he hath not had discipline, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.📜💬📚
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