SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY TUESDAY 24 OCT. 2017

Proverbs 7:1-27

1
KJV: My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
NLT: Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands.

2
KJV: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
NLT: Obey them and live! Guard my teachings as your most precious possession.

3
KJV: Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
NLT: Tie them on your fingers as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.

4
KJV: Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
NLT: Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family.

5
KJV: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
NLT: Let them hold you back from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of an adulterous woman.

6
KJV: For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
NLT: I was looking out the window of my house one day

7
KJV: And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
NLT: and saw a simpleminded young man who lacked common sense.

8
KJV: Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
NLT: He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman. He was strolling down the path by her house

9
KJV: In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
NLT: at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.

10
KJV: And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
NLT: The woman approached him, dressed seductively and sly of heart.

11
KJV: (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
NLT: She was the brash, rebellious type who never stays at home.

12
KJV: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
NLT: She is often seen in the streets and markets, soliciting at every corner.

13
KJV: So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
NLT: She threw her arms around him and kissed him, and with a brazen look she said,

14
KJV: I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
NLT: “I’ve offered my sacrifices and just finished my vows.

15
KJV: Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
NLT: It’s you I was looking for! I came out to find you, and here you are!

16
KJV: I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
NLT: My bed is spread with colored sheets of finest linen imported from Egypt.

17
KJV: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
NLT: I’ve perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18
KJV: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
NLT: Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning. Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses,

19
KJV: For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
NLT: for my husband is not home. He’s away on a long trip.

20
KJV: He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
NLT: He has taken a wallet full of money with him, and he won’t return until later in the month.”

21
KJV: With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
NLT: So she seduced him with her pretty speech. With her flattery she enticed him.

22
KJV: He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
NLT: He followed her at once, like an ox going to the slaughter or like a trapped stag,

23
KJV: Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
NLT: awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart. He was like a bird flying into a snare, little knowing it would cost him his life.

24
KJV: Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
NLT: Listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to my words.

25
KJV: Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
NLT: Don’t let your hearts stray away toward her. Don’t wander down her wayward path.

26
KJV: For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
NLT: For she has been the ruin of many; numerous men have been her victims.

27
KJV: Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
NLT: Her house is the road to the grave. Her bedroom is the den of death.
Stay blessed. Amen.