Proverbs 5
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My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

how

Proverbs 1:7,22,29,30 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise …

Proverbs 15:5 A fool despises his father's instruction: but he that regards reproof …

Psalm 50:17 Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.

Psalm 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.

Zechariah 7:11-14 But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped …

John 3:19,20 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, …

and my

Proverbs 1:25 But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs …

Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction: but he …

Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came …

Exodus 2:13,14 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews …

2 Chronicles 24:20-22 And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, …

2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …

2 Chronicles 33:10,11 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not listen…

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …

Jeremiah 44:4 However, I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early …

Zechariah 1:4-6 Be you not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, …

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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