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# Proverbs 5 (New King James Version)
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The Peril of Adultery
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##### Chapter 5
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###### 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
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Lend your ear to my understanding,
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###### 2 That you may preserve discretion,
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And your lips may keep knowledge.
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###### 3 For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey,
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And her mouth _is_ smoother than oil;
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###### 4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
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Sharp as a two-edged sword.
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###### 5 Her feet go down to death,
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Her steps lay hold of hell.
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###### 6 Lest you ponder _her_ path of life--
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Her ways are unstable;
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You do not know _them._
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###### 7 Therefore hear me now, _my_ children,
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And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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###### 8 Remove your way far from her,
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And do not go near the door of her house,
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###### 9 Lest you give your honor to others,
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And your years to the cruel _one;_
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###### 10 Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,
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And your labors _go_ to the house of a foreigner;
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###### 11 And you mourn at last,
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When your flesh and your body are consumed,
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###### 12 And say:
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"How I have hated instruction,
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And my heart despised correction!
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###### 13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
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Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
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###### 14 I was on the verge of total ruin,
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In the midst of the assembly and congregation."
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###### 15 Drink water from your own cistern,
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And running water from your own well.
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###### 16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
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Streams of water in the streets?
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###### 17 Let them be only your own,
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And not for strangers with you.
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###### 18 Let your fountain be blessed,
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And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
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###### 19 _As a_ loving deer and a graceful doe,
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Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
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And always be enraptured with her love.
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###### 20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
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And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
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###### 21 For the ways of man _are_ before the eyes of the Lord,
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And He ponders all his paths.
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###### 22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked _man,_
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And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
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###### 23 He shall die for lack of instruction,
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And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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