1 My child, keep my words, and treasure my precepts,
2 keep my precepts and you will live, keep my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind these to your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to Wisdom, 'You are my sister!' Call Understanding your relation,
5 to save yourself from the woman that belongs to another, from the stranger, with her seductive words.
6 While I was at the window of my house, I was looking out through the lattice
7 and I saw, among the callow youths, I noticed among the lads, one boy who had no sense.
8 Going along the lane, near the corner where she lives, he reaches the path to her house,
9 at twilight when day is declining, at dead of night and in the dark.
10 And look, a woman is coming to meet him, dressed like a prostitute, false of heart.
11 She is loud and brazen; her feet cannot rest at home.
12 Once in the street, once in the square, she lurks at every corner.
13 She catches hold of him, she kisses him, the bold-faced creature says to him,
14 'I had to offer a communion sacrifice, I have discharged my vows today;
15 that is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and now I have found you.
16 I have spread coverlets over my divan, embroidered stuff, Egyptian material,
17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come on, we'll make love as much as we like, till morning. Let us enjoy the delights of love!
19 For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a very long journey,
20 taking his moneybags with him; he will not be back till the moon is full.'
21 With her persistent coaxing she overcomes him, lures him on with her wheedling patter.
22 Forthwith he follows her, like an ox on its way to the slaughterhouse, like a madman on his way to the stocks,
23 until an arrow pierces him to the liver, like the bird that dashes into the net without realising that its life is at stake.
24 And now, son, listen to me, pay attention to the words I have to say:
25 do not let your heart stray into her ways, or wander into her paths;
26 she has done so many to death, and the strongest have all been her victims.
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, the descent to the courts 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.
Proverbs 9:10: "The fear of the Lord is the principle of wisdom, and the knowledge of the saint is prudence." This verse emphasizes the importance of seeking God's wisdom and fearing it as a means of avoiding temptation and falling sexual immorality.
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