Proverbs 5:15

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Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5 : 2 But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband. 3 A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband. 4 It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife. 5 Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth– 19 a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

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    15You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

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    13“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

  • Prov 18:4
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    4The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

  • Jas 3:11-12
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    11A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

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    3Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of deliverance.

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    25I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

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    15He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

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    5Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

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    7For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

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    18I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.

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