1 My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands.
2 Keep my commands and live, my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3 Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to Wisdom, "You are my sister!" call Understanding, "Friend!"
5 That they may keep you from another's wife, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
6 For at the window of my house, through my lattice I looked out--
7 And I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the young men, a youth with no sense,
8 Going along the street near the corner, then walking in the direction of her house--
9 In the twilight, at dusk of day, at the time of the dark of night.
10 And lo! the woman comes to meet him, robed like a harlot, with secret designs--
11 She is fickle and unruly, in her home her feet cannot rest;
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the open squares, and at every corner she lurks in ambush--
13 When she seizes him, she kisses him, and with an impudent look says to him:
14 "I owed peace offerings, and today I have fulfilled my vows;
15 So I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I have found you!
16 With coverlets I have spread my couch, with brocaded cloths of Egyptian linen;
17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
18 "Come, let us drink our fill of love, until morning, let us feast on love!
19 For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey;
20 A bag of money he took with him, not till the full moon will he return home."
21 She wins him over by her repeated urging, with her smooth lips she leads him astray;
22 He follows her stupidly, like an ox that is led to slaughter; Like a stag that minces toward the net,
23 till an arrow pierces its liver; Like a bird that rushes into a snare, unaware that its life is at stake.
24 So now, O children, listen to me, be attentive to the words of my mouth!
25 Let not your heart turn to her ways, go not astray in her paths;
26 For many are those she has struck down dead, numerous, those she has slain.
27 Her house is made up of ways to the nether world, leading down into the chambers of death.
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Proverbs 7 presents a scene where a young man is seduced by an immoral woman. The chapter serves as a warning to young people about the dangers of temptation and lack of discernment, highlighting the importance of wisdom and faithfulness.
1 Corinthians 10:12: "He then, who takes care of being up, does not fall." This verse warns that we must be vigilant about temptation and not consider ourselves immune to fall.
1 Timothy 4:12: "No one despises your youth, but have an example to the faithful in the Word, in the procedure, in love, in faith, in purity." This verse urges young people to live a life of purity and to be examples of faithfulness and wisdom.
Proverbs 2:16-17: "You will get rid of the strange woman, the foreigner who flatters her words, which leaves the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God." This verse emphasizes the importance of staying away from sexual immorality and the temptation of the strange woman.
1 John 2:15-16: "Do not love the world, nor what is in the world. If someone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, lust From the eyes and the pride of life, it does not come from the Father, but from the world. " This verse highlights the importance of moving away from the world and its temptations, including sexual immorality.
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