Warning Against Adultery

In Proverbs 5:1-23, there are heaps of warnings and sound advice on adultery; the behaviors of an adulteress and consequences of association with her.

Proverbs 5:1, NIV..listen to my words of insight, that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

Proverbs 5:18-19, NIV..rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Procerbs 5:23, NIV. ..die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

Proverbs 5:1-23
[1]Pay attention, my child, and listen to my wisdom and insight.
[2]Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.
[3]The lips of another man’s wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil,
[4]but when it is all over, she leaves you nothing but bitterness and pain.
[5]She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.
[6]She does not stay on the road to life; but wanders off, and does not realize what is happening.
[7]Now listen to me, my children, and never forget what I am saying.
[8]Keep away from such a woman! Don’t even go near her door!
[9]If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.
[10]Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.
[11]You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,
[12]and you will say, “Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?
[13]I wouldn’t listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to them.
[14]And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced.”
[15]Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.
[16]Children that you have by other women will do you no good.
[17]Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.
[18]So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married —
[19]pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.

[20]Why should you give your love to another woman, my son? Why should you prefer the charms of another man’s wife?
[21]The Lord sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.
[22]The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.
[23]They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.

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