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Proverbs Chapter 5

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PROVERBS

Proverbs 5

1My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
Proverbs 22:17, Proverbs 22:17, Proverbs 4:20, Proverbs 2:1, Proverbs 4:20
2That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
Proverbs 16:23, Malachi 2:6, Malachi 2:7, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:23
3For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 7:21, Psalms 55:21, Proverbs 7:5
4But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.
Ecclesiastes 7:26, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 57:4, Psalms 55:21
5Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.
Proverbs 7:27, Proverbs 7:27, Proverbs 2:18, Proverbs 2:19, Proverbs 2:18
6She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
Proverbs 4:26, Proverbs 4:26, Psalms 16:11, Psalms 16:11, Proverbs 30:20
7Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 3:21, Proverbs 4:21, Proverbs 7:24
8Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
Proverbs 7:25, Proverbs 7:25, Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:11, Proverbs 4:15
9Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
Nehemiah 13:26, Nehemiah 13:26, Hosea 4:13, Hosea 4:14, Hosea 4:13
10Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
Hosea 7:9, Proverbs 6:35, Proverbs 31:3, Hosea 7:9, Proverbs 6:35
11And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
Romans 6:21, Romans 6:21, Revelation 22:15, Revelation 22:15, Hebrews 13:4
12And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 15:5, Proverbs 1:22
13And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
Hebrews 13:7, Luke 15:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:8, Hebrews 13:7, Luke 15:18
14I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 13:20, 2 Peter 2:10, 2 Peter 2:18, 2 Peter 2:10
15Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7:5, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7:5, Hebrews 13:4
16Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
Psalms 128:3, Psalms 128:3, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:3, Genesis 24:60
17But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Malachi 2:14, Malachi 2:15, Malachi 2:14
19Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
Song of Solomon 7:3, Song of Solomon 7:3, Song of Solomon 4:5, Song of Solomon 2:9, Song of Solomon 8:14
20For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
Proverbs 6:24, Proverbs 7:5, Proverbs 6:24, Proverbs 7:5, 1 Kings 11:1
21For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
Hebrews 4:13, Hebrews 4:13, Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 15:3, Job 34:21
22His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 1:32, Proverbs 11:5, Proverbs 1:18, Psalms 9:15
23Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
Job 36:12, Job 36:12, Job 4:21, Job 4:21, Proverbs 14:32

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