Proverbs 5 (NET)

Proverbs 5:1¹My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:2²in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:3³For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:4⁴but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:5⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:6⁶Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:7⁷So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:8⁸Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:9⁹lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:10¹⁰lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:11¹¹And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:12¹²And you will say, “How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:13¹³For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:14¹⁴I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:15¹⁵Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:16¹⁶Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:17¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:18¹⁸May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:19¹⁹a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:20²⁰But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:21²¹For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord ’s eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person’s paths.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:22²²The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 5:23²³He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s