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<a href ="../1_corinthians/5.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1–8</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My son, pay attention to my wisdom; <p class="indent2"> incline your ear to my insight, <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that you may maintain discretion <p class="indent2"> and your lips may preserve knowledge. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Though the lips of the forbidden woman<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> drip honey <p class="indent2"> and her speech<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> is smoother than oil, <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>in the end she is bitter as wormwood, <p class="indent2"> sharp as a double-edged sword. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Her feet go down to death; <p class="indent2"> her steps lead straight to Sheol.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>She does not consider the path of life; <p class="indent2"> she does not know that her ways are unstable. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So now, my sons, listen to me, <p class="indent2"> and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Keep your path far from her; <p class="indent2"> do not go near the door of her house, <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>lest you concede your vigor to others, <p class="indent2"> and your years to one who is cruel; <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>lest strangers feast on your wealth, <p class="indent2"> and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>At the end of your life you will groan <p class="indent2"> when your flesh and your body are spent, <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and you will say, “How I hated discipline, <p class="indent2"> and my heart despised reproof! <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I did not listen to the voice of my teachers <p class="indent2"> or incline my ear to my mentors. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am on the brink of utter ruin <p class="indent2"> in the midst of the whole assembly.” <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Drink water from your own cistern, <p class="indent2"> and running water from your own well. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Why should your springs flow in the streets, <p class="indent2"> your streams of water in the public squares? <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let them be yours alone, <p class="indent2"> never to be shared with strangers. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>May your fountain be blessed, <p class="indent2"> and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>A loving doe, a graceful fawn—<p class="indent2"> may her breasts satisfy you always; <p class="indent2"> may you be captivated<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> by her love forever. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, <p class="indent2"> or embrace the bosom of a stranger?<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, <p class="indent2"> and the LORD examines<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> all his paths. <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; <p class="indent2"> the cords of his sin entangle him. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He dies for lack of discipline, <p class="indent2"> led astray by his own great folly.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>the adulteress</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>her palate</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>lay hold of Sheol</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>be led astray</i>; 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