English Bible Presentation Sharing - Proverbs Book, chapter 5, verse 25 in Net Version

Proverbs 5 : 1 (NET)

My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

Proverbs 5 : 2 (NET)

in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

Proverbs 5 : 3 (NET)

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

Proverbs 5 : 4 (NET)

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 5 : 5 (NET)

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

Proverbs 5 : 6 (NET)

Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.

Proverbs 5 : 7 (NET)

So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

Proverbs 5 : 8 (NET)

Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5 : 9 (NET)

lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

Proverbs 5 : 10 (NET)

lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.

Proverbs 5 : 11 (NET)

And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.

Proverbs 5 : 12 (NET)

And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!

Proverbs 5 : 13 (NET)

For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

Proverbs 5 : 14 (NET)

I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"

Proverbs 5 : 15 (NET)

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5 : 16 (NET)

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

Proverbs 5 : 17 (NET)

Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

Proverbs 5 : 18 (NET)

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife�

Proverbs 5 : 19 (NET)

a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

Proverbs 5 : 20 (NET)

But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

Proverbs 5 : 21 (NET)

For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD's eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person's paths.

Proverbs 5 : 22 (NET)

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

Proverbs 5 : 23 (NET)

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.