Proverbs 5:17

American Standard Version (1901)

Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

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  • Prov 5:18-20
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

    19[ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

    20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

  • Prov 5:8-10
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    8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

    9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;

    10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,

  • 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 5:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

    16Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

  • 2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • 19Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

  • 21Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

  • 30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

  • 15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

  • 3neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  • Prov 6:24-25
    2 verses
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

  • 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

  • 17Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, Lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

  • 33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

  • 32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • 21My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • 20And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

  • 17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • 12Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

  • 18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

  • 25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

  • 4And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

  • 6Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee.

  • 25Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

  • 45Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.

  • 26My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

  • 13and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

  • 2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

  • 5Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

  • 12now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

  • 3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

  • 27And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

  • 3Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

  • 6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

  • 18Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

  • 25Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

  • 9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

  • 13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge [that is surety] for a foreign woman.

  • 10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

  • 20But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

  • 15lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

  • 2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

  • 12Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

  • 21Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.