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Read Proverbs 7

World English Bible · 27 verses

¹ My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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