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lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, "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. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation." Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. And now, O sons, 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, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,

Oct 10

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highlighted Proverbs 4:23 ESV

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Oct 10

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highlighted Proverbs 4:22 ESV

For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

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highlighted Proverbs 4:18 ESV

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

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highlighted Proverbs 4:14 ESV

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.

Oct 10

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highlighted Proverbs 4:4 ESV

he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.

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highlighted Proverbs 3:35 ESV

The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.

Sep 24

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highlighted Proverbs 3:34 ESV

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

Sep 24

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highlighted Proverbs 3:33 ESV

The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Sep 24

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highlighted Proverbs 3:27 ESV

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Sep 24

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highlighted Proverbs 3:25-26 ESV

Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

Sep 24