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| | Pro 7:1 | My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
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| | Pro 7:2 | Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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| | Pro 7:3 | Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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| | Pro 7:4 | Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding your intimate friend;
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| | Pro 7:5 | That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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| | Pro 7:6 | For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
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| | Pro 7:7 | And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,
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| | Pro 7:8 | Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,
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| | Pro 7:9 | In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
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| | Pro 7:10 | And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
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| | Pro 7:11 | She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;
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| | Pro 7:12 | She is now in the streets, now in the squares, And lurks by every corner.
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| | Pro 7:13 | So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him:
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| | Pro 7:14 | "I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.
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| | Pro 7:15 | "Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
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| | Pro 7:16 | "I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt.
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| | Pro 7:17 | "I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
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| | Pro 7:18 | "Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.
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| | Pro 7:19 | "For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;
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| | Pro 7:20 | He has taken a bag of money with him, At the full moon he will come home."
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| | Pro 7:21 | With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.
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| | Pro 7:22 | Suddenly he follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,
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| | Pro 7:23 | Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, So he does not know that it will cost him his life.
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| | Pro 7:24 | Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
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| | Pro 7:25 | Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not stray into her paths.
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| | Pro 7:26 | For many are the victims she has cast down, And numerous are all her slain.
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| | Pro 7:27 | Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
