Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 5:1-23; Proverbs 6:20-35; Proverbs 7:1-27; Proverbs 22:14; Proverbs 30:20
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Proverbs 5:1
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My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Proverbs 5:2
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that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3
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Though the lips of the forbidden woman(a) drip honey and her speech(a) is smoother than oil,
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Proverbs 5:4
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her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5
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Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight(a) to Sheol.
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Proverbs 5:6
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She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
Proverbs 5:7
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So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8
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Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9
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lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel,
Proverbs 5:10
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lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
Proverbs 5:11
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At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
Proverbs 5:12
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and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 5:13
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I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
Proverbs 5:14
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I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
Proverbs 5:15
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Drink water from your own cistern, and running water out of your own well.
Proverbs 5:16
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Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Proverbs 5:17
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Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Proverbs 5:18
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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Proverbs 5:19
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A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated(a) by her love forever.
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Proverbs 5:20
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Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger(a)?
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Proverbs 5:21
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For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the Lord watches all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22
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The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Proverbs 5:23
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He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
Proverbs 6:20
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My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:21
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Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
Proverbs 6:22
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When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
Proverbs 6:23
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For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
Proverbs 6:24
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to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adultress.
Proverbs 6:25
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Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
Proverbs 6:26
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(a)For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
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Proverbs 6:27
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Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs 6:28
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Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
Proverbs 6:29
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So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Proverbs 6:30
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Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
Proverbs 6:31
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Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.
Proverbs 6:32
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But he who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Proverbs 6:33
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Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
Proverbs 6:34
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For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
Proverbs 6:35
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He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.
Proverbs 7:1
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My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
Proverbs 7:2
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Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Proverbs 7:3
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Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:4
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Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
Proverbs 7:5
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that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger(a) with seductive words.
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Proverbs 7:6
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For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
Proverbs 7:7
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I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
Proverbs 7:8
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crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,
Proverbs 7:9
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at twilight, as the day was fading, into the dark of the night.
Proverbs 7:10
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Then a woman came out to meet him, with attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
Proverbs 7:11
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She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
Proverbs 7:12
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Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
Proverbs 7:13
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She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
Proverbs 7:14
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“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
Proverbs 7:15
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So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
Proverbs 7:16
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I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
Proverbs 7:17
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:18
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Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
Proverbs 7:19
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For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
Proverbs 7:20
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He took with him a bag of money and will not return until the moon is full.”
Proverbs 7:21
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With her great persuasion she entices him; she lures him with her flattering lips.
Proverbs 7:22
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He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap(a),
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Proverbs 7:23
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until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
Proverbs 7:24
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Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25
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Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
Proverbs 7:26
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For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Proverbs 7:27
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Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 22:14
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The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is cursed by the LORD will fall into it.
Proverbs 30:20
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This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
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