King James Bible

Proverbs 6

The Proverbs

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Chapter 7

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  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.  

 

 

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  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.  

 

 

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3


 

  Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.  

 

 

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  Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:  

 

 

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  That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.  

 

 

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  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,  

 

 

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  And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,  

 

 

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  Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,  

 

 

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9


 

  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:  

 

 

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  And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.  

 

 

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  (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:  

 

 

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  Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)  

 

 

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13


 

  So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him,  

 

 

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14


 

  [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.  

 

 

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15


 

  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.  

 

 

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16


 

  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.  

 

 

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  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.  

 

 

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18


 

  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.  

 

 

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  For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:  

 

 

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20


 

  He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.  

 

 

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21


 

  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.  

 

 

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22


 

  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;  

 

 

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  Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.  

 

 

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24


 

  Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.  

 

 

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25


 

  Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.  

 

 

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  For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.  

 

 

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  Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.  

 

 

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Proverbs 8

 

 

 

 

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