1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 1:8, Revelation 1:3, Luke 11:28, Revelation 1:3

2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

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Psalms 17:8, Psalms 17:8, Leviticus 18:5, Leviticus 18:5, John 15:14

3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Deuteronomy 11:18, Deuteronomy 11:20, Deuteronomy 11:18, Deuteronomy 11:20, Proverbs 3:3

4Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

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Proverbs 2:2, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:2, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 4:6

5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 6:24, Proverbs 6:24, Proverbs 5:3

6For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

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Judges 5:28, Genesis 26:8, Judges 5:28, Genesis 26:8, 2 Samuel 6:16

7I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

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Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 8:5

8passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

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Proverbs 4:14, Proverbs 4:15, Proverbs 5:8, Jude 1:23, 2 Samuel 11:2

9in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

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Romans 13:12, Romans 13:14, Job 24:13, Job 24:15, Romans 13:12

10Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

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1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Timothy 2:9, Isaiah 3:16, Isaiah 3:24, 2 Corinthians 11:2

11She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house.

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Proverbs 9:13, Proverbs 9:13, Titus 2:5, Titus 2:5, Proverbs 31:10

12Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

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Proverbs 23:28, Proverbs 23:28, Proverbs 9:14, Proverbs 9:14, Revelation 18:3

13So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

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Numbers 25:6, Numbers 25:8, Genesis 39:12, Numbers 25:6, Numbers 25:8

14"Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

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Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 21:27, Leviticus 7:11, Leviticus 7:11, 2 Samuel 15:7

15Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

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16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

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Isaiah 19:9, Isaiah 19:9, Ezekiel 27:7, Ezekiel 27:7, Revelation 2:22

17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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Psalms 45:8, Psalms 45:8, Song of Solomon 4:13, Song of Solomon 4:14, Exodus 30:23

18Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

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19For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.

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Luke 12:45, Luke 12:46, Matthew 20:11, Luke 12:45, Luke 12:46

20He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."

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2 Chronicles 2:4, 2 Chronicles 2:4

21With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

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Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 7:5, Proverbs 7:5, 2 Kings 4:8

22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

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Job 13:27, Job 13:27, Acts 16:24, Jeremiah 20:2, Acts 14:13

23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

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Ecclesiastes 9:12, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs 1:17

24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

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Proverbs 5:7, Proverbs 5:7, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 4:1, 1 John 2:1

25Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths,

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Proverbs 5:8, Proverbs 5:8, Proverbs 6:25, Isaiah 53:6, Proverbs 6:25

26for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

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Nehemiah 13:26, Nehemiah 13:26, 1 Corinthians 10:8, 1 Peter 2:11, 1 Kings 11:1

27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

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Proverbs 5:5, Proverbs 5:5, Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs 9:18, Revelation 22:15