Proverbs 5 (NET)

Proverbs 5:1¹My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 22:17Prov 2:1Prov 4:20Rev 2:11Mark 4:23Rev 2:17Rev 3:13Jas 1:19Prov 4:1Rev 2:29

Proverbs 5:2²in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 2:6-7Prov 15:7Prov 16:23Song 4:11Prov 10:21Prov 15:2Ps 119:13Ps 45:2Ps 71:15Prov 20:15

Proverbs 5:3³For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 2:16Prov 6:24Prov 7:21Prov 7:5Ps 55:21Rev 17:2-6

Proverbs 5:4⁴but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 7:26Ps 55:21Ps 57:4Heb 4:12Prov 9:18Heb 12:15-16Judg 16:15-21Judg 16:4-6Prov 23:27-28Prov 6:24-35

Proverbs 5:5⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 7:27Prov 2:18-19

Proverbs 5:6⁶Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 4:26Prov 5:21Ps 16:11Prov 30:20Prov 6:12-13Ps 119:592 Thess 2:9-10Prov 11:19Prov 7:10-21

Proverbs 5:7⁷So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 4:1Prov 22:17-21Prov 7:24Heb 12:25Prov 3:21Prov 4:21Prov 8:32-36

Proverbs 5:8⁸Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:11Prov 7:25Matt 6:13Prov 4:15Prov 6:27-28

Proverbs 5:9⁹lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:26Hos 4:13-14Gen 38:23-26Judg 16:19-21

Proverbs 5:10¹⁰lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 7:9Prov 6:35Prov 31:3Luke 15:30

Proverbs 5:11¹¹And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:21Rev 22:15Heb 13:4Num 5:271 Cor 5:4-5Deut 32:29Jer 5:31Prov 7:23Rev 21:8

Proverbs 5:12¹²And you will say, “How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 12:1Prov 1:22Prov 1:25Prov 1:7Prov 15:5Exod 2:13-14Jer 44:4John 3:19-20Prov 13:18Ps 50:17

Proverbs 5:13¹³For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 4:8Heb 13:7Luke 15:181 Thess 5:12-13

Proverbs 5:14¹⁴I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 13:201 Cor 10:6-82 Pet 2:10-18Hos 4:11-14Num 25:1-6Jude 1:7-13

Proverbs 5:15¹⁵Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 7:2-5Heb 13:4Prov 5:18-19

Proverbs 5:16¹⁶Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 128:3Ps 127:3Deut 33:28Gen 24:60Isa 48:21Judg 12:9Ps 68:26

Proverbs 5:17¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Proverbs 5:18¹⁸May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 9:9Mal 2:14-15Song 4:15Song 4:12

Proverbs 5:19¹⁹a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 7:3Song 2:9Song 4:5Song 8:14Prov 5:15Song 2:172 Sam 12:4

Proverbs 5:20²⁰But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 6:24Prov 7:51 Kgs 11:1Prov 22:14Prov 23:27-28Prov 23:33Prov 2:16-19

Proverbs 5:21²¹For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord ’s eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person’s paths.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 4:13Prov 15:3Jer 32:19Job 34:21Hos 7:2Jer 16:17Jer 23:24Ps 11:4Job 31:4Ps 119:168

Proverbs 5:22²²The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:31-32Prov 11:5Eph 5:5-6Hos 4:11-14Num 32:23Prov 1:18Ps 9:151 Cor 5:9-10Eccl 7:26Gal 5:19-21

Proverbs 5:23²³He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 36:12Job 4:212 Pet 2:15-22Prov 10:21Prov 14:32Prov 14:14Ps 81:12