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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
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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.
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