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Proverbs Chapter 5

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Proverbs

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In this chapter the wise man warns against the dangers of pride and the loss of wisdom, showing how the rich become poor and the foolish are humbled. He contrasts the path of the righteous with that of the wicked, emphasizing that true wealth comes from knowledge and integrity.

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(1) My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
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Proverbs 2:1Proverbs 4:1Proverbs 4:20Matthew 3:9Mark 4:23Revelation 2:7Revelation 2:11Revelation 2:17Revelation 2:29Revelation 3:6Revelation 3:13Revelation 3:22

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Proverbs 2:2Deuteronomy 4:6I Kings 4:30Proverbs 4:7Proverbs 10:13Daniel 5:11

(2) That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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Proverbs 10:21Proverbs 15:2Proverbs 15:7Proverbs 16:23Proverbs 20:15Psalms 45:2Psalms 71:15Psalms 119:13Song of Solomon 4:11Malachi 2:6Malachi 2:7

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Deuteronomy 30:20Revelation 3:18

(3) For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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Proverbs 2:16Proverbs 6:24Proverbs 7:21Revelation 17:2Revelation 17:3Revelation 17:4Revelation 17:5Revelation 17:6Psalms 55:21

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Leviticus 7:12Song of Solomon 4:11

(4) But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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Proverbs 6:24Proverbs 6:25Proverbs 6:26Proverbs 6:27Proverbs 6:28Proverbs 6:29Proverbs 6:30Proverbs 6:31Proverbs 6:32Proverbs 6:33Proverbs 6:34Proverbs 6:35

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Revelation 8:11

(5) Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
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Proverbs 2:18Proverbs 2:19Proverbs 7:27

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Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38

(6) Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
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Proverbs 4:26Psalms 119:59Proverbs 11:19Psalms 16:11Proverbs 6:12Proverbs 6:13Proverbs 7:10Proverbs 7:11Proverbs 7:12Proverbs 7:13Proverbs 7:14Proverbs 7:15

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Obadiah 1:12Proverbs 4:26

(7) Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Proverbs 4:1Proverbs 8:32Proverbs 8:33Proverbs 8:34Proverbs 8:35Proverbs 8:36Proverbs 22:17Proverbs 22:18Proverbs 22:19Proverbs 22:20Proverbs 22:21Hebrews 12:25

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Lamentations 4:15

(8) Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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Proverbs 4:15Proverbs 6:27Proverbs 6:28Matthew 6:13Ephesians 5:11

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Ezekiel 41:3

(9) Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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Proverbs 6:29Proverbs 6:30Proverbs 6:31Proverbs 6:32Proverbs 6:33Proverbs 6:34Proverbs 6:35Genesis 38:23Genesis 38:24Genesis 38:25Genesis 38:26Judges 16:19

(10) Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
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Proverbs 6:35Hosea 7:9Luke 15:30Proverbs 31:3

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Exodus 23:9

(11) And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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Proverbs 7:23Deuteronomy 32:29Jeremiah 5:31Romans 6:21Hebrews 13:4Revelation 21:8Revelation 22:15Numbers 5:27I Corinthians 5:4I Corinthians 5:5

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I Corinthians 15:44Luke 11:34I Corinthians 12:12

(12) And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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Proverbs 1:7Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 1:29Proverbs 1:30Proverbs 15:5Psalms 50:17Psalms 73:22Zechariah 7:11Zechariah 7:12Zechariah 7:13Zechariah 7:14John 3:19

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Deuteronomy 21:15

(13) And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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Luke 15:18I Thessalonians 4:8I Thessalonians 5:12I Thessalonians 5:13Hebrews 13:7

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Jeremiah 11:8Jeremiah 17:23

(14) I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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Proverbs 13:20Numbers 25:1Numbers 25:2Numbers 25:3Numbers 25:4Numbers 25:5Numbers 25:6Hosea 4:11Hosea 4:12Hosea 4:13Hosea 4:14I Corinthians 10:6

(15) Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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Proverbs 5:18Proverbs 5:19I Corinthians 7:2I Corinthians 7:3I Corinthians 7:4I Corinthians 7:5Hebrews 13:4

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Genesis 1:7Genesis 7:18Genesis 8:3

(16) Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
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Deuteronomy 33:28Psalms 68:26Isaiah 48:21Genesis 24:60Judges 12:9Psalms 127:3Psalms 128:3

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Genesis 1:6Leviticus 11:9Leviticus 11:10Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 31:4Ezekiel 32:2

(17) Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
(18) Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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Ecclesiastes 9:9Malachi 2:14Malachi 2:15

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Ecclesiastes 11:9

(19) Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
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Song of Solomon 2:9Song of Solomon 4:5Song of Solomon 7:3Song of Solomon 8:14Proverbs 5:15II Samuel 12:4

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Luke 6:32II Samuel 1:26Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16I John 4:18

(20) And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Proverbs 2:16Proverbs 2:17Proverbs 2:18Proverbs 2:19Proverbs 6:24Proverbs 7:5Proverbs 22:14Proverbs 23:27Proverbs 23:28Proverbs 23:33I Kings 11:1

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II Kings 8:12I Samuel 1:8Exodus 15:26Exodus 4:7

(21) For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
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Proverbs 15:3II Chronicles 16:9Job 31:4Job 34:21Psalms 11:4Psalms 17:3Psalms 139:1Psalms 139:2Psalms 139:3Psalms 139:4Psalms 139:5Psalms 139:6

(22) His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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Proverbs 1:18Proverbs 1:31Proverbs 11:3Proverbs 11:5Psalms 7:15Psalms 7:16Psalms 9:15Jeremiah 2:19Hosea 4:11Hosea 4:12Hosea 4:13Hosea 4:14

(23) He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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Proverbs 10:21Proverbs 14:32Job 4:21Job 36:12Proverbs 14:14Psalms 81:12II Peter 2:15II Peter 2:16II Peter 2:17II Peter 2:18II Peter 2:19II Peter 2:20

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8Ezekiel 48:11

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