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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 5
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Proverbs 5:1
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My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely[a] to my understanding(a)
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Proverbs 5:2
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so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge.(b)
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Proverbs 5:3
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Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are[b] smoother than oil,
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Proverbs 5:4
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in the end she's as bitter as wormwood(c) and as sharp as a double-edged sword.(d)
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Proverbs 5:5
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Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol.(e)
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Proverbs 5:6
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She doesn't consider the path of life; she doesn't know that her ways are unstable.
Proverbs 5:7
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So now, my sons, listen to me, and don't turn away from the words of my mouth.(f)
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Proverbs 5:8
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Keep your way far from her. Don't go near the door of her house.(g)
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Proverbs 5:9
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Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel;
Proverbs 5:10
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strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner's house.
Proverbs 5:11
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At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,
Proverbs 5:12
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and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.(h)
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Proverbs 5:13
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I didn't obey my teachers or listen closely[c] to my mentors.
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Proverbs 5:14
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I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community."
Proverbs 5:15
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Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.(i)
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Proverbs 5:16
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Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?(j)
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Proverbs 5:17
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They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers.
Proverbs 5:18
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Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.(k)
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Proverbs 5:19
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A loving doe, a graceful fawn— let her breasts always satisfy you;(l) be lost in her love forever.
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Proverbs 5:20
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Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger?(m)
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Proverbs 5:21
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For a man's ways are before the Lord 's eyes,(n) and He considers all his paths.(o)
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Proverbs 5:22
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A wicked man's iniquities entrap him;(p) he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.(q)
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Proverbs 5:23
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He will die because there is no discipline,(r) and be lost because of his great stupidity.
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