Hello, and welcome
to His Word Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for joining with me today
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to read in the book
of Proverbs together.
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Let's pray before we start.
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Dear God, Thank You for these
words of wisdom that can give us
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understanding, and can
guide us in our interactions
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with each other, and
with You in a way that
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glorifies Your name.
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Please be with us now as
we read, and help us to hear
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and to understand these words.
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We love You and
thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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We're reading in Proverbs
3 beginning with verse 27.
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This is the King James Version.
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Withhold not good from
them to whom it is due,
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when it is in the
power of thine hand to do it.
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Say not unto thy
neighbor, Go, and come again,
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and tomorrow I will give;
when thou hast it by thee.
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Devise not evil against thy
neighbor, seeing he dwelleth
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securely by thee.
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Strive not with a man
without cause, if he have done
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thee no harm.
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Envy thou not the oppressor,
and choose none of his ways.
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For the froward is abomination
to the Lord: but his secret
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is with the righteous.
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The curse of the Lord is
in the house of the wicked:
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but he blesseth the
habitation of the just.
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Surely he scorneth the
scorners: but he giveth grace
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unto the lowly.
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The wise shall inherit
glory: but shame shall be the
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promotion of fools.
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Proverbs 4.
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Hear, ye children, the
instruction of a father,
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and attend to
know understanding.
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For I give you good
doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
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For I was my father's
son, tender and only beloved
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in the sight of my mother.
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He taught me also, and said
unto me, Let thine heart retain
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my words: keep my
commandments, and live.
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Get wisdom, get
understanding: forget it not;
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neither decline from
the words of my mouth.
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Forsake her not, and she
shall preserve thee: love her,
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and she shall keep thee.
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Wisdom is the principal
thing; therefore get wisdom:
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and with all thy
getting get understanding.
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Exalt her, and she
shall promote thee:
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she shall bring thee to honor,
when thou dost embrace her.
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She shall give to thine
head an ornament of grace:
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a crown of glory
shall she deliver to thee.
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Hear, O my son, and receive
my sayings; and the years of thy
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life shall be many.
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I have taught thee in the
way of wisdom; I have led thee
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in the right paths.
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When thou goest, thy
steps shall not be straitened;
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and when thou runnest,
thou shalt not stumble.
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Take fast hold of instruction;
let her not go: keep her;
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for she is thy life.
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Enter not into the path
of the wicked, and go not
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in the way of evil men.
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Avoid it, pass not by it,
turn from it, and pass away.
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For they sleep not,
except they have done mischief;
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and their sleep is taken away,
unless they cause some to fall.
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For they eat the
bread of wickedness,
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and drink the wine of violence.
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But the path of the
just is as the shining light,
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that shineth more and
more unto the perfect day.
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The way of the wicked is
as darkness: they know not
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at what they stumble.
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My son, attend to my
words; incline thine ear
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unto my sayings.
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Let them not depart from thine
eyes; keep them in the midst
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of thine heart.
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For they are life
unto those that find them,
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and health to all their flesh.
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Keep thy heart with all
diligence; for out of it
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are the issues of life.
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Put away from thee a
froward mouth, and perverse lips
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put far from thee.
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Let thine eyes look right
on, and let thine eyelids look
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straight before thee.
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Ponder the path of thy feet, and
let all thy ways be established.
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Turn not to the
right hand nor to the left:
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remove thy foot from evil.
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Proverbs 5.
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This is the King James Version.
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My son, attend unto my
wisdom, and bow thine ear
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to my understanding: that
thou mayest regard discretion,
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and that thy lips
may keep knowledge.
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For the lips of a strange
woman drop as an honeycomb,
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and her mouth is
smoother than oil:
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but her end is
bitter as wormwood,
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sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death;
her steps take hold on hell.
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Lest thou shouldest
ponder the path of life,
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her ways are moveable,
that thou canst not know them.
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Hear me now
therefore, O ye children,
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and depart not from
the words of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far
from her, and come not nigh
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the door of her house: lest thou
give thine honor unto others,
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and thy years unto the
cruel: lest strangers be filled
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with thy wealth; and thy labors
be in the house of a stranger;
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and thou mourn at the last,
when thy flesh and thy body
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are consumed, and say,
How have I hated instruction,
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and my heart despised reproof;
and have not obeyed the voice
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of my teachers, nor
inclined mine ear to them
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that instructed me!
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I was almost in all evil in
the midst of the congregation
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and assembly.
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Drink waters out of thine
own cistern, and running waters
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out of thine own well.
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Let thy fountains be dispersed
abroad, and rivers of waters
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in the streets.
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Let them be only thine own,
and not strangers' with thee.
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Let thy fountain be blessed:
and rejoice with the wife
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of thy youth.
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Let her be as the
loving hind and pleasant roe;
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let her breasts satisfy thee at
all times; and be thou ravished
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always with her love.
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And why wilt thou, my son, be
ravished with a strange woman,
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and embrace the
bosom of a stranger?
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For the ways of man are
before the eyes of the Lord,
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and he pondereth all his goings.
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His own iniquities
shall take the wicked himself,
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and he shall be held
with the cords of his sins.
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He shall die without
instruction; and in the
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greatness of his
folly he shall go astray.
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Proverbs 6.
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My son, if thou be surety for
thy friend, if thou has stricken
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thy hand with a stranger, thou
art snared with the words of
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thy mouth, thou art taken
with the words of thy mouth.
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Do this now, my son, and deliver
thyself, when thou art come into
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the hand of thy
friend; go, humble thyself,
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and make sure thy friend.
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Give not sleep to thine eyes,
nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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Deliver thyself as a roe
from the hand of the hunter,
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and as a bird from
the hand of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise:
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which having no
guide, overseer, or ruler,
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provideth her meat in the
summer, and gathereth her food
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in the harvest.
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How long wilt thou sleep, O
sluggard? when wilt thou arise
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out of thy sleep?
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Yet a little sleep, a
little slumber, a little folding
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of the hands to sleep: so shall
thy poverty come as one that
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traveleth, and thy
want as an armed man.
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A naughty person, a wicked man,
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walketh with a froward mouth.
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He winketh with his eyes,
he speaketh with his feet,
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he teacheth with his fingers;
frowardness is in his heart,
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he deviseth mischief
continually; he soweth discord.
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Therefore shall his
calamity come suddenly;
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suddenly shall he be
broken without remedy.
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These six things doth the
Lord hate: yea, seven are an
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abomination unto him: a
proud look, a lying tongue,
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and hands that shed innocent
blood, an heart that deviseth
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wicked imaginations, feet that
be swift in running to mischief,
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a false witness that speaketh
lies, and he that soweth
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discord among brethren.
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My son, keep thy father's
commandment, and forsake not
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the law of thy mother: bind them
continually upon thine heart,
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and tie them about thy neck.
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When thou goest, it shall
lead thee; when thou sleepest,
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it shall keep thee;
and when thou awakest,
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it shall talk with thee.
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For the commandment is a
lamp; and the law is light;
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and reproofs of
instruction are the way of life:
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to keep thee from the evil
woman, from the flattery of the
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tongue of a strange woman.
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Lust not after her beauty
in thine heart; neither let her
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take thee with her eyelids.
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For by means of a whorish woman
a man is brought to a piece of
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bread: and the adultress
will hunt for the precious life.
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Can a man take fire in
his bosom, and his clothes
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not be burned?
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Can one go upon hot coals
and his feet not be burned?
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So he that goeth in
to his neighbor's wife;
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whosoever toucheth
her shall not be innocent.
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Men do not despise a thief,
if he steal to satisfy his soul
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when he is hungry; but if
he be found, he shall restore
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sevenfold; he shall give
all the substance of his house.
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But whoso committeth
adultery with a woman lacketh
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understanding: he that doeth
it destroyeth his own soul.
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A wound and dishonor
shall he get; and his reproach
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shall not be wiped away.
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For jealousy is the rage of a
man: therefore he will not spare
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in the day of vengeance.
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He will not regard any ransom;
neither will he rest content,
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though thou givest many gifts.
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Proverbs 7.
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This is the King James Version.
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My son, keep my words, and lay
up my commandments with thee.
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Keep my commandments, and
live; and my law as the apple
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of thine eye.
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Bind them upon thy fingers,
write them upon the table
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of thine heart.
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my
sister; and call understanding
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thy kinswoman: that they
may keep thee from the strange
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woman, from the stranger
which flattereth with her words.
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For at the window of my house
I looked through my casement,
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and beheld among the simple
ones, I discerned among the
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youths, a young man void of
understanding, passing through
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the street near her corner; and
he went the way to her house,
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in the twilight, in the evening,
in the black and dark night:
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and, behold, there met
him a woman with the attire
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of an harlot,
and subtle of heart.
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(She is loud and stubborn;
her feet abide not in her house:
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now is she
without, now in the streets,
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and lieth in
wait at every corner.)
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So she caught
him, and kissed him,
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and with an impudent face said
unto him, I have peace offerings
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with me; this day
have I paid my vows.
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Therefore came I forth to
meet thee, diligently to seek
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thy face, and I have found thee.
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I have decked my bed
with coverings of tapestry,
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with carved works,
with fine linen of Egypt.
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I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Come, let us take our
fill of love until the morning:
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let us solace
ourselves with loves.
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For the goodman is not at
home, he is gone a long journey:
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he hath taken a bag of money
with him, and will come home
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at the day appointed.
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With her much fair
speech she caused him to yield,
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with the flattering of
her lips she forced him.
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He goeth after her straightway,
as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
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or as a fool to the
correction of the stocks;
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till a dart strike through his
liver; as a bird hasteth to the
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snare, and knoweth not
that it is for his life.
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Hearken unto me now
therefore, O ye children,
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and attend to the
words of my mouth.
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Let not thine heart decline
to her ways, go not astray
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in her paths.
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For she hath cast down many
wounded: yea, many strong men
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have been slain by her.
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Her house is the way
to hell, going down to the
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chambers of death.
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Proverbs 8.
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Doth not wisdom
cry? and understanding
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put forth her voice?
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She standeth in the top of
high places, by the way in the
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places of the paths.
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She crieth at the gates,
at the entry of the city,
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at the coming in at the doors.
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Unto you, O men, I call; and
my voice is to the sons of man.
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O ye simple, understand wisdom:
and, ye fools, be ye of an
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understanding heart.
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Hear; for I will
speak of excellent things;
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and the opening of my
lips shall be right things.
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For my mouth shall speak truth;
and wickedness is an abomination
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to my lips.
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All the words of my
mouth are in righteousness;
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there is nothing
froward or perverse in them.
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They are all plain to
him that understandeth,
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and right to them
that find knowledge.
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Receive my
instruction, and not silver;
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and knowledge
rather than choice gold.
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Thank you for joining me.
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Please join me again next time.
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Goodbye.
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