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Proverbs 7:22
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Proverbs 7 Verses
1
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My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. |
2
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Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. |
3
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Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the table of thine heart. |
4
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding {cf15i thy} kinswoman: |
5
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. |
6
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For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice; |
7
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And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, |
8
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Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house; |
9
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In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness. |
10
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And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart. |
11
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She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house: |
12
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Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner. |
13
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So she caught him, and kissed him, {cf15i and} with an impudent face she said unto him: |
14
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Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows. |
15
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. |
16
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I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. |
17
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
18
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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves. |
19
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For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: |
20
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He hath taken a bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon. |
21
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With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forceth him away. |
22
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He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as fetters to the correction of the fool; |
23
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Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. |
24
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Now therefore, {cf15i my} sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. |
25
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. |
26
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For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, all her slain are a mighty host. |
27
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Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. |