The Bible Study Podcast, episode 466. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of

Proverbs with chapter 5.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast from your host, Chris Christensen.

This is an odd episode because this is the second time I'm doing this episode, not because I lost it, but because after I recorded it the first time, I started thinking about the chapters, and I found that I had something different to talk about. Let's read Proverbs 5, warning against adultery. My son, pay attention to my wisdom,

turn your ear to my words of insight, that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than

oil. But in the end, she is bitter as gall, sharp as a

double-edged sword. Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to the grave. She gives no

thought to the way of life. Her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.

Now then my sons, listen to me. Do not turn aside from what I say. Keep a path

far from her. Do not go near the door of her house, lest you lose your honor to others, and your dignity

to the one who is cruel, lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your toil enrich the house of another.

At the end of your life, you will groan. When your flesh and spirit are spent, you will say how I hated discipline,

how my heart spurned correction. I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors,

and I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God's people.

Drink from the water of your own cistern, running water from your own well. Should your springs

overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares, let them be yours alone,

never to be shared with strangers. May your fountain be blessed.

And may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

A loving doe, a graceful dear.

May her breasts satisfy you always.

May you ever be intoxicated with her love.

Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man's wife?

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