Proverbs 5

WISDOM TO KEEP YOU FROM SIN AND IT'S 

PENALTIES 

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

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

God here is telling us how important obeying words of wisdom is to not only the health of our soul, but also for the well being of our earthly quality of living  

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

 4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 

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

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

 The cunning traps of the strange woman and how they can lead one into sin that has a costly end. In the beginning things seem sweet as a honeycomb, but in the end the sin is better and deadly as a two-edged sword.

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

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

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

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

God tells us here it is better to avoid the companionship of the strange woman (harlots or prostitutes) because of the consequences from God for giving into this type of temptation. We are to stay far from her , the monies spent on a extra relationship or a prostitute, takes hard earned money from family and bank accounts and makes others rich who did not work for that money. 

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

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

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

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

In these verses He tells us that we will remember our sins in hell. And  will recall the times that we were taught to stay away from sin and did not listen.

 

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

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

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

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

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. 

Here He tells us to not stray from the fruitfulness of what we have. To enjoy the bounty of our own wells or relationships with our spouses. We are to be so in love with our mates that we honor them at all times, will be looking for ways to show our love to them. You will be surprised what love can accomplish.

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

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

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

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

God sees all that man does and He thinks on them, does he reward or send a life lessons. He says here that if we work at embracing our mate so that it brings the best out in them, they in return they will love us as much.The wicked will not listen to wisdom. The sins of the wicked will condemn him and he  will be bound with its cords and he shall die without instruction and all his foolishness will pass away as he spends eternity in everlasting torment. 

I pray that you will listen to wise instruction. Follow God's word for a happy life of fulfillment and blessings.