Proverbs 5:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

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  • Prov 5:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

    19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 5:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

    10And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

  • Prov 7:5
    77%

    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Prov 5:15-16
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    76%

    15Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

    16Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

  • Job 15:19
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    19For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)

  • Prov 4:21
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    21Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Deut 28:30
    72%

    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Prov 1:15
    72%

    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • Prov 6:24-25
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    71%

    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Prov 2:16
    71%

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

  • Prov 25:17
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    17Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

  • Prov 23:33
    71%

    33Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Ezek 16:32
    71%

    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 3:21
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    21My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

  • Lev 18:20
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    20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • Deut 17:17
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    17And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

  • Josh 23:12
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    12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

  • Prov 7:25
    69%

    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Num 18:4
    69%

    4They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Prov 4:25
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    25Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

  • Lev 25:45
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    45And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

  • Prov 23:26
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    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

  • Num 5:13
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    13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Prov 27:2
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    2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.

  • Ps 128:3
    69%

    3Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

  • Deut 14:27
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    27And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • Prov 31:3
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    3Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

  • Jer 29:6
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    6Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • Deut 5:18
    69%

    18Do not be false to the married relation.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

  • Eccl 9:9
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    9Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

  • Prov 27:13
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    13Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

  • Job 31:10
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    10Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

  • Num 5:20
    69%

    20But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

  • Exod 34:15
    68%

    15So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Jer 16:2
    68%

    2You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Exod 34:12
    68%

    12But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Prov 6:21
    68%

    21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.