Proverbs Chapter 7
Proverbs is the 20th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains Proverbs 7:1 to Proverbs 7:9.
Browse to all the verses of Proverbs by clicking the page number below the chapter list.
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Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:4
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding your intimate friend;
Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 7:6
For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
Proverbs 7:7
And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,
Proverbs 7:8
Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,
Proverbs 7:9
In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Proverbs 7:10
And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
Proverbs 7:11
She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;
Proverbs 7:12
She is now in the streets, now in the squares, And lurks by every corner.
Proverbs 7:13
So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him:
Proverbs 7:14
"I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.
Proverbs 7:15
"Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
Proverbs 7:16
"I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt.
Proverbs 7:17
"I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:18
"Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.
Proverbs 7:19
"For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;
Proverbs 7:20
He has taken a bag of money with him, At the full moon he will come home."
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