Proverbs 7

About Proverbs Proverbs collects short sayings of practical wisdom for daily life, rooted in the fear of the LORD.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.SelectedProverbs 7:1Ask

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.SelectedProverbs 7:2Ask

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.SelectedProverbs 7:3Ask

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:SelectedProverbs 7:4Ask

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.SelectedProverbs 7:5Ask

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,SelectedProverbs 7:6Ask

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,SelectedProverbs 7:7Ask

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,SelectedProverbs 7:8Ask

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:SelectedProverbs 7:9Ask

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.SelectedProverbs 7:10Ask

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:SelectedProverbs 7:11Ask

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)SelectedProverbs 7:12Ask

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,SelectedProverbs 7:13Ask

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.SelectedProverbs 7:14Ask

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.SelectedProverbs 7:15Ask

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.SelectedProverbs 7:16Ask

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.SelectedProverbs 7:17Ask

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.SelectedProverbs 7:18Ask

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:SelectedProverbs 7:19Ask

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.SelectedProverbs 7:20Ask

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.SelectedProverbs 7:21Ask

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;SelectedProverbs 7:22Ask

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.SelectedProverbs 7:23Ask

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.SelectedProverbs 7:24Ask

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.SelectedProverbs 7:25Ask

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.SelectedProverbs 7:26Ask

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.SelectedProverbs 7:27Ask

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