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Book of Proverbs, Chapter 7

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Chapter 7 of Proverbs—Revised Standard Version (RSV)

  1. ¶ My son, keep my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you;
  2. keep my commandments and live,
      keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
  3. bind them on your fingers,
      write them on the tablet of your heart.
  4. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
      and call insight your intimate friend;
  5. to preserve you from the loose woman,
      from the adventuress with her smooth words.
  6. ¶ For at the window of my house
      I have looked out through my lattice,
  7. and I have seen among the simple,
      I have perceived among the youths,
      a young man without sense,
  8. passing along the street near her corner,
      taking the road to her house
  9. in the twilight, in the evening,
      at the time of night and darkness.
  10. ¶ And lo, a woman meets him,
      dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.[a]
  11. She is loud and wayward,
      her feet do not stay at home;
  12. now in the street, now in the market,
      and at every corner she lies in wait.
  13. She seizes him and kisses him,
      and with impudent face she says to him:
  14. “I had to offer sacrifices,
      and today I have paid my vows;
  15. so now I have come out to meet you,
      to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
  16. I have decked my couch with coverings,
      colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
  17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
      aloes, and cinnamon.
  18. Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;
      let us delight ourselves with love.
  19. For my husband is not at home;
      he has gone on a long journey;
  20. he took a bag of money with him;
      at full moon he will come home.”
  21. ¶ With much seductive speech she persuades him;
      with her smooth talk she compels him.
  22. All at once he follows her,
      as an ox goes to the slaughter,
    or as a stag is caught fast[b]
  23. till an arrow pierces its entrails;
    as a bird rushes into a snare;
      he does not know that it will cost him his life.
  24. ¶ And now, O sons, listen to me,
      and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
  25. Let not your heart turn aside to her ways,
      do not stray into her paths;
  26. for many a victim has she laid low;
      yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
  27. Her house is the way to Sheol,
      going down to the chambers of death.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  2. ^ Cn Compare Gk: Heb uncertain

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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