5Proverbs 5

Warning against Adultery

1My child, pay attention and listen to my wisdom and insight.Select Proverbs 5:1

2Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.Select Proverbs 5:2

3The lips of another man's wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil,Select Proverbs 5:3

4but when it is all over, she leaves you nothing but bitterness and pain.Select Proverbs 5:4

5She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.Select Proverbs 5:5

6She does not stay on the road to life; but wanders off, and does not realize what is happening.Select Proverbs 5:6

7Now listen to me, sons, and never forget what I am saying.Select Proverbs 5:7

8Keep away from such a woman! Don't even go near her door!Select Proverbs 5:8

9If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.Select Proverbs 5:9

10Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.Select Proverbs 5:10

11You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,Select Proverbs 5:11

12and you will say, “Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?Select Proverbs 5:12

13I wouldn't listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to them.Select Proverbs 5:13

14And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced.”Select Proverbs 5:14

15Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.Select Proverbs 5:15

16Children that you have by other women will do you no good.Select Proverbs 5:16

17Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.Select Proverbs 5:17

18So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married—Select Proverbs 5:18

19pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.Select Proverbs 5:19

20Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?Select Proverbs 5:20

21The Lord sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.Select Proverbs 5:21

22The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.Select Proverbs 5:22

23They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.Select Proverbs 5:23