Proverbs 5:15-23

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Proverbs 5:15-23

15Drink water from your own cistern,
and running water from your own well.
16Why should your springs flow in the streets,
your streams of water in the public squares?
17Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers.
18May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19A loving doe, a graceful fawn—
may her breasts satisfy you always;
may you be captivated by her love forever.
20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress,
or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD,
and the LORD examines all his paths.
22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him;
the cords of his sin entangle him.
23He dies for lack of discipline,
led astray by his own great folly.
— Proverbs 5:15-23

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