Warning Against Unchastity
May 9th, 2010. Filed under: Sunday Scriptures.
My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge.
For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edge sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.
She does not keep straight to the paths of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
And now, my child, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house; or you will give your honor to others, and your years to the merciless, and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labors will go to the house of an alien; and at the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
Now I am at the point of utter ruin in the public assembly.”
Proverbs 5:1-14