Proverbs Chapter 5

Verses from Proverbs, Chapter 5 of the book of Proverbs in the Bible.

Warning against adultery

• 1. Hear, my son, the instruction of the wise, and incline your ear to understanding;
• 2. That you may guard your thoughts and your lips may preserve knowledge.
• 3. For the lips of the strange woman drop honeycombs, and her taste is sweeter than oil;
• 4. But its end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
• 5. Her feet go down to death; his steps lead to Sheol.
• 6. Lest you ponder the path of life; their careers are wandering, and you don't know it.
• 7. Now therefore, children, listen to me, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
• 8. Let your path be far from her, and do not approach the door of her house;
• 9. Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to a cruel person;
• 10. So that strangers do not get tired of your work, and the fruit of your labor does not enter other people's houses.
• 11. And you groan at your end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
• 12. And say: How I hated correction, and my heart despised reproof!
• 13. And I did not listen to the voice of those who taught me, and to those who instructed me I did not incline my ear!
• 14. It took little time for me to be brought to ruin before the congregation and the assembly.
• 15. Drink water from your own cistern, and from the streams of your well.
• 16. Would your fountains spill out outside, and streams of water in the streets?
• 17. Let them be for you alone, and not for strangers with you.
• 18. May your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
• 19. Like a loving deer, and a graceful mountain goat. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and by his love be drawn perpetually.
• 20. And why, my son, would you be attracted to a strange woman, and embrace the breast of a stranger?
• 21. For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he considers all his paths.
• 22. His own iniquities will bind him, and with the ropes of his sin he will be held.
• 23. He will die because he has not learned discipline, and he will err because of his great folly.