English Bible Presentation Sharing - Proverbs Book, chapter 5, verse 2 in Nlv Version

Proverbs 5 : 1 (NLV)

My son, listen to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding.

Proverbs 5 : 2 (NLV)

So you may know what is good thinking, and your lips may keep much learning.

Proverbs 5 : 3 (NLV)

For the lips of a strange woman are as sweet as honey. Her talk is as smooth as oil.

Proverbs 5 : 4 (NLV)

But in the end she is as bitter tasting as wormwood, and as sharp as a sword that cuts both ways.

Proverbs 5 : 5 (NLV)

Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of hell.

Proverbs 5 : 6 (NLV)

She does not think about the path of life. Her ways go this way and that, and she does not know it.

Proverbs 5 : 7 (NLV)

Now then, my sons, listen to me. Do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5 : 8 (NLV)

Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.

Proverbs 5 : 9 (NLV)

If you do, you would give your strength to others, and your years to those without loving-kindness.

Proverbs 5 : 10 (NLV)

Strangers would be filled with your strength, and the fruits of your work would go to a strange house.

Proverbs 5 : 11 (NLV)

You would cry inside yourself when your end comes, when your flesh and body are wasted away.

Proverbs 5 : 12 (NLV)

You would say, "How I have hated teaching! My heart hated strong words!

Proverbs 5 : 13 (NLV)

I have not listened to the voice of my teachers. I have not turned my ear to those who would teach me.

Proverbs 5 : 14 (NLV)

Now I have a bad name in the meeting place of the people."

Proverbs 5 : 15 (NLV)

Drink water from your own pool, flowing water from your own well.

Proverbs 5 : 16 (NLV)

Should the waters from your well flow away, rivers of water in the streets?

Proverbs 5 : 17 (NLV)

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

Proverbs 5 : 18 (NLV)

Let your well be honored, and be happy with the wife you married when you were young.

Proverbs 5 : 19 (NLV)

Let her be like a loving, female deer. Let her breasts please you at all times. Be filled with great joy always because of her love.

Proverbs 5 : 20 (NLV)

My son, why should you be carried away with a sinful woman and fall into the arms of a strange woman?

Proverbs 5 : 21 (NLV)

For the ways of a man are seen by the eyes of the Lord, and He watches all his paths.

Proverbs 5 : 22 (NLV)

His own sins will trap the sinful. He will be held with the ropes of his sin.

Proverbs 5 : 23 (NLV)

He will die for want of teaching, and will go the wrong way because of the greatness of his foolish ways.