SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY SUNDAY 22 OCT. 2017

Proverbs 5:1-23

1

KJV: My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

NLT: My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel.

2

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

NLT: Then you will learn to be discreet and will store up knowledge.

3

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

NLT: The lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.

4

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

NLT: But the result is as bitter as poison, sharp as a double-edged sword.

5

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

NLT: Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

6

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

NLT: For she does not care about the path to life. She staggers down a crooked trail and doesn’t even realize where it leads.

7

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

NLT: So now, my sons, listen to me. Never stray from what I am about to say:

8

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

NLT: Run from her! Don’t go near the door of her house!

9

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

NLT: If you do, you will lose your honor and hand over to merciless people everything you have achieved in life.

10

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

NLT: Strangers will obtain your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

11

KJV: And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

NLT: Afterward you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body,

12

KJV: And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

NLT: and you will say, “How I hated discipline! If only I had not demanded my own way!

13

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

NLT: Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers? Why didn’t I pay attention to those who gave me instruction?

14

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

NLT: I have come to the brink of utter ruin, and now I must face public disgrace.”

15

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

NLT: Drink water from your own well—share your love only with your wife.

16

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

NLT: Why spill the water of your springs in public, having sex with just anyone?

17

KJV: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

NLT: You should reserve it for yourselves. Don’t share it with strangers.

18

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

NLT: Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19

KJV: 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.

NLT: She is a loving doe, a graceful deer. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.

20

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

NLT: Why be captivated, my son, with an immoral woman, or embrace the breasts of an adulterous woman?

21

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

NLT: For the Lord sees clearly what a man does, examining every path he takes.

22

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

NLT: An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him.

23

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

NLT: He will die for lack of self-control; he will be lost because of his incredible folly.

Stay blessed and welcome to a new week.