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Proverbs 5:16-23
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Proverbs 5:16-23
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Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
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Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
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Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
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For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.
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The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
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He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.