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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 5:15-8:11
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Proverbs 5:15
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Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.(i)
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Proverbs 5:16
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Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?(j)
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Proverbs 5:17
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They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers.
Proverbs 5:18
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Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.(k)
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Proverbs 5:19
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A loving doe, a graceful fawn— let her breasts always satisfy you;(l) be lost in her love forever.
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Proverbs 5:20
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Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger?(m)
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Proverbs 5:21
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For a man's ways are before the Lord 's eyes,(n) and He considers all his paths.(o)
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Proverbs 5:22
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A wicked man's iniquities entrap him;(p) he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.(q)
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Proverbs 5:23
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He will die because there is no discipline,(r) and be lost because of his great stupidity.
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Proverbs 6:1
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My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor[a] or entered into an agreement with[b] a stranger,[c](a)
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Proverbs 6:2
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you have been trapped by the words of your lips[d]— ensnared by the words of your mouth.
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Proverbs 6:3
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Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have put yourself in your neighbor's power: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
Proverbs 6:4
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Don't give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.(b)
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Proverbs 6:5
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Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,[e] like a bird from a fowler's trap.[f](c)
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Proverbs 6:6
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Go to the ant,(d) you slacker!(e) Observe its ways and become wise.
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Proverbs 6:7
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Without leader, administrator, or ruler,
Proverbs 6:8
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it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest.(f)
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Proverbs 6:9
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How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Proverbs 6:10
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,(g)
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Proverbs 6:11
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and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.(h)
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Proverbs 6:12
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A worthless person,(i) a wicked man goes around speaking dishonestly,(j)
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Proverbs 6:13
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winking(k) his eyes, signaling with his feet, and gesturing with his fingers.
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Proverbs 6:14
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He always plots evil(l) with perversity in his heart— he stirs up trouble.(m)
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Proverbs 6:15
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Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly; he will be shattered instantly—beyond recovery.(n)
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Proverbs 6:16
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The Lord hates six things; in fact, seven are detestable to Him:
Proverbs 6:17
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arrogant eyes,(o) a lying tongue,(p) hands that shed innocent blood,(q)
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Proverbs 6:18
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a heart that plots wicked schemes,(r) feet eager to run to evil,(s)
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Proverbs 6:19
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a lying witness who gives false testimony,(t) and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.(u)
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Proverbs 6:20
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My son, keep your father's command, and don't reject your mother's teaching.(v)
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Proverbs 6:21
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Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck.(w)
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Proverbs 6:22
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When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.
Proverbs 6:23
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For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,(x) and corrective discipline is the way to life.(y)
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Proverbs 6:24
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They will protect you from an evil woman,[g] from the flattering[h] tongue of a stranger.(z)
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Proverbs 6:25
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Don't lust in your heart for her beauty(aa) or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.(ab)
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Proverbs 6:26
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For a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread,[i] but an adulteress[j] goes after a precious life.(ac)
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Proverbs 6:27
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Can a man embrace fire[k] and his clothes not be burned?
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Proverbs 6:28
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Can a man walk on burning coals without scorching his feet?
Proverbs 6:29
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So it is with the one who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.(ad)
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Proverbs 6:30
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People don't despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.(ae)
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Proverbs 6:31
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Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much;(af) he must give up all the wealth in his house.
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Proverbs 6:32
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The one who commits adultery[l] lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.(ag)
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Proverbs 6:33
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He will get a beating[m] and dishonor, and his disgrace will never be removed.
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Proverbs 6:34
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For jealousy enrages a husband,(ah) and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
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Proverbs 6:35
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He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish gifts.
Proverbs 7:1
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My son, obey my words, and treasure my commands.(a)
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Proverbs 7:2
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Keep my commands and live;(b) protect my teachings as the pupil of your eye.(c)
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Proverbs 7:3
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Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.(d)
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Proverbs 7:4
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Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"(e) and call understanding your relative.
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Proverbs 7:5
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She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a stranger with her flattering talk.(f)
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Proverbs 7:6
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At the window of my house I looked through my lattice.(g)
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Proverbs 7:7
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I saw among the inexperienced,[a] I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking sense.
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Proverbs 7:8
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Crossing the street near her corner, he strolled down the road to her house
Proverbs 7:9
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at twilight, in the evening, in the dark of the night.(h)
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Proverbs 7:10
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A woman came to meet him dressed like a prostitute,(i) having a hidden agenda.[b]
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Proverbs 7:11
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She is loud and defiant;(j) her feet do not stay at home.(k)
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Proverbs 7:12
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Now in the street, now in the squares,(l) she lurks at every corner.(m)
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Proverbs 7:13
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She grabs him and kisses him; she brazenly says[c] to him,
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Proverbs 7:14
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"I've made fellowship offerings;[d] today I've fulfilled my vows.(n)
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Proverbs 7:15
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So I came out to meet you, to search for you, and I've found you.
Proverbs 7:16
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I've spread coverings on my bed(o)— richly colored linen from Egypt.(p)
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Proverbs 7:17
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I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.(q)
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Proverbs 7:18
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Come, let's drink deeply of lovemaking until morning.(r) Let's feast on each other's love!
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Proverbs 7:19
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My husband isn't home; he went on a long journey.
Proverbs 7:20
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He took a bag of money with him and will come home at the time of the full moon."
Proverbs 7:21
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She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering[e] talk.
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Proverbs 7:22
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He follows her impulsively like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding toward a trap[f]
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Proverbs 7:23
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until an arrow pierces its[g] liver,(s) like a bird darting into a snare(t)— he doesn't know it will cost him his life.
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Proverbs 7:24
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Now, my sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25
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Don't let your heart turn aside to her ways; don't stray onto her paths.(u)
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Proverbs 7:26
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For she has brought many down to death; her victims are countless.[h]
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Proverbs 7:27
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Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.(v)
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Proverbs 8:1
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Doesn't Wisdom(a) call out? Doesn't Understanding make her voice heard?
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Proverbs 8:2
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At the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads, she takes her stand.
Proverbs 8:3
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Beside the gates(b) at the entry to[a] the city, at the main entrance, she cries out:
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Proverbs 8:4
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"People, I call out to you; my cry is to mankind.
Proverbs 8:5
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Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish.
Proverbs 8:6
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Listen, for I speak of noble things, and what my lips say is right.
Proverbs 8:7
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For my mouth tells the truth,(c) and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
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Proverbs 8:8
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All the words of my mouth are righteous; none of them are deceptive or perverse.(d)
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Proverbs 8:9
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All of them are clear to the perceptive,(e) and right to those who discover knowledge.
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Proverbs 8:10
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Accept my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.(f)
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Proverbs 8:11
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For wisdom is better than jewels,(g) and nothing desirable can compare with it.(h)
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