King James Version

Proverbs 5

Proverbs in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Proverbs 5:1

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
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Open Proverbs 5:2

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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Open Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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Open Proverbs 5:4

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Open Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
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Open Proverbs 5:6

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
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Open Proverbs 5:7

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Open Proverbs 5:8

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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Open Proverbs 5:9

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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Open Proverbs 5:10

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
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Open Proverbs 5:11

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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Open Proverbs 5:12

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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Open Proverbs 5:13

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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Open Proverbs 5:14

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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Open Proverbs 5:15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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Open Proverbs 5:16

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
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Open Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
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Open Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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Open Proverbs 5:19

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
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Open Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Open Proverbs 5:21

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
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Open Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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Open Proverbs 5:23

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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