Proverbs 2:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

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  • Jer 3:4 : 4 Diddest thou not stil crie vnto me, Thou art my father, and the guide of my youth?
  • Ezek 16:8 : 8 Nowe when I passed by thee, and looked vpon thee, beholde, thy time was as the time of loue, and I spred my skirtes ouer thee, and couered thy filthines: yea, I sware vnto thee, and entred into a couenant with thee, saith the Lorde God, and thou becamest mine.
  • Ezek 16:59-60 : 59 For thus saith the Lord God, I might euen deale with thee, as thou hast done: when thou didest despise the othe, in breaking the couenant. 60 Neuerthelesse, I wil remember my couenant made with thee in ye dayes of thy youth, and I wil confirme vnto thee an euerlasting couenant.
  • Prov 5:18 : 18 Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lorde hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant. 15 And did not hee make one? yet had hee abundance of spirit: and wherefore one? because he sought a godly seede: therefore keepe your selues in your spirit, & let none trespasse against the wife of his youth. 16 If thou hatest her, put her away, sayeth the Lorde God of Israel, yet he couereth the iniurie vnder his garment, saieth the Lord of hosts: therefore keepe your selues in your spirite, and transgresse not.

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    18 Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

    19 All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

  • Prov 2:16
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    16 And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    5 Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

    6 Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

  • Jer 2:32-33
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    32 Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? yet my people haue forgotten me, daies without number.

    33 Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that thy waies are wickednesse.

  • Prov 5:18-20
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    18 Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

    19 Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

    20 For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

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    32 But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

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    5 For their mother hath plaied the harlot: she that conceiued them, hath done shamefully: for shee said, I will goe after my louers that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle and my drinke.

    6 Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.

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    14 Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lorde hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant.

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    20 But as a woman rebelleth against her husband: so haue yee rebelled against me, O house of Israel, sayeth the Lord.

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    25 Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

  • Ezek 23:35
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    35 Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy backe, therefore thou shalt also beare thy wickednes and thy whoredome.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

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  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19 Thine owne wickednes shal correct thee, and thy turnings backe shal reprooue thee: know therefore and beholde, that it is an euil thing, and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my feare is not in thee, sayeth the Lorde God of hostes.

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    13 And I wil visit vpon her the daies of Baalim, wherein shee burnt incense to them: and shee decked her selfe with her earings and her iewels, and shee folowed her louers, and forgate me, saith the Lorde.

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    8 Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

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  • Ezek 23:17-19
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    17 Nowe when the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, they defiled her with their fornication, and she was polluted with them, and her lust departed from them.

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    27 For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

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    14 The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

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    6 My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Lawe of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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    17 Thou hast also taken thy faire iewels made of my golde and of my siluer, which I had giuen thee, and madest to thy selfe images of men, and didest commit whoredome with them,