◄ Proverbs 5:15 {16} ►
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Good News Translation
Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.

New Revised Standard Version
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

Contemporary English Version
You should be faithful to your wife, just as you take water from your own well.

New American Bible
Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

Proverbs 5:18,19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband. . . .

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Avoiding Immorality
…14Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well: 15Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.16Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.…
Cross References
Proverbs 5:14
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:

Proverbs 5:16
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.

Songs 4:12
My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.

Isaiah 36:16
Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me, and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the water of his cistern,

Proverbs 5:14
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