Proverbs 5

King James Version · 23 verses · 366 cross-references linking it to 175 other chapters

1. 1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:23 cross-references: Proverbs 22:17, Proverbs 4:20, Proverbs 2:1, Revelation 2:11, James 1:19
2. 2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.10 cross-references: Proverbs 16:23, Malachi 2:6–7, Proverbs 15:7, Song of Solomon 4:11, Proverbs 15:2
3. 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:25 cross-references: Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 7:21, Psalms 55:21, Proverbs 7:5, Proverbs 6:24
4. 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.17 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 7:26, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 57:4, Hebrews 4:12, Proverbs 9:18
5. 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.7 cross-references: Proverbs 7:27, Proverbs 2:18–19
6. 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.14 cross-references: Proverbs 4:26, Psalms 16:11, Proverbs 30:20, Proverbs 5:21, Psalms 119:59
7. 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.13 cross-references: Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 3:21, Proverbs 4:21, Proverbs 7:24, Hebrews 12:25
8. 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:16 cross-references: Proverbs 7:25, Ephesians 5:11, Proverbs 4:15, Matthew 6:13, Proverbs 6:27–28
9. 9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:9 cross-references: Nehemiah 13:26, Hosea 4:13–14, Judges 16:19–21, Genesis 38:23–26, Proverbs 6:29–35
10. 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;7 cross-references: Hosea 7:9, Proverbs 6:35, Proverbs 31:3, Luke 15:30
11. 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,18 cross-references: Romans 6:21, Revelation 22:15, Hebrews 13:4, Numbers 5:27, Deuteronomy 32:29
12. 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;40 cross-references: Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 15:5, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:25
13. 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!8 cross-references: Hebrews 13:7, Luke 15:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13
14. 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.7 cross-references: Proverbs 13:20, 2 Peter 2:10–18, Hosea 4:11–14, Numbers 25:1–6, 1 Corinthians 10:6–8
15. 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.12 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 7:2–5, Hebrews 13:4, Proverbs 5:18–19
16. 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.10 cross-references: Psalms 128:3, Psalms 127:3, Genesis 24:60, Psalms 68:26, Isaiah 48:21
17. 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18. 18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.16 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 9:9, Malachi 2:14–15, Song of Solomon 4:15, Song of Solomon 4:12
19. 19Let 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.13 cross-references: Song of Solomon 7:3, Song of Solomon 4:5, Song of Solomon 2:9, Song of Solomon 8:14, Song of Solomon 2:17
20. 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?12 cross-references: Proverbs 6:24, Proverbs 7:5, 1 Kings 11:1, Proverbs 22:14, Proverbs 23:27–28
21. 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.38 cross-references: Hebrews 4:13, Proverbs 15:3, Job 34:21, Jeremiah 32:19, Job 31:4
22. 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.47 cross-references: Proverbs 1:31–32, Proverbs 11:5, Proverbs 1:18, Psalms 9:15, Hosea 4:11–14
23. 23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.10 cross-references: Job 36:12, Job 4:21, Proverbs 14:32, Proverbs 10:21, 2 Peter 2:15–22

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