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Proverbs 5

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Part of The Father's Call and Wisdom's Cry📖 Proverbs introduction

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1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: ✦ 2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. ✦ 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: ✦ 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ✦ 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. ✦ 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. ✦ 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. ✦ 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: ✦ 9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: ✦ 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; ✦ 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ✦ 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; ✦ 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! ✦ 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. ✦ 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ✦ 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. ✦ 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. 18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. ✦ 19Let 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. ✦ 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ✦ 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. ✦ 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. ✦ 23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. ✦

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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.

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