Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5 in full

King James Version, 23 verses. Tap a reference to link straight to a single verse.

1. Prov 5:1

   My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

2. Prov 5:2

   That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

3. Prov 5:3

   For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

4. Prov 5:4

   But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

5. Prov 5:5

   Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

6. Prov 5:6

   Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

7. Prov 5:7

   Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

8. Prov 5:8

   Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

9. Prov 5:9

   Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

10. Prov 5:10

    Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

11. Prov 5:11

    And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

12. Prov 5:12

    And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

13. Prov 5:13

    And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

14. Prov 5:14

    I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

15. Prov 5:15

    Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

16. Prov 5:16

    Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

17. Prov 5:17

    Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

18. Prov 5:18

    Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

19. Prov 5:19

    Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

20. Prov 5:20

    And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

21. Prov 5:21

    For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

22. Prov 5:22

    His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

23. Prov 5:23

    He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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Proverbs 5 is part of Proverbs, book 20 of the 66 in the King James Bible. Read the 31 chapters straight through, or search any word across all 66 books.