Welcome to Proverbs chapter 7 on Build Your Bible Habit.

The overall theme of chapter 7 is a hard warning against lust.

It reminds me of the old saying, when fleeing temptation, don't leave a forwarding address.

This chapter is good and hard at the same time. Let's read it together.

Proverbs chapter 7. My son, keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments

and live and my law as the apple of thine eye bind them upon thy fingers write them upon the table of

thy heart say unto wisdom thou art my sister and call understanding thy kin's woman that they may keep thee from the

strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words. For at the window of my house, I looked

through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man

void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her

house, in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night.

And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot and subtle of heart.

She is loud and stubborn. Her feet abide not in her house. Now is she without, now in the

streets, and lieth in wait at every corner. So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent

face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me. This day have I paid my vows. Therefore came I forth to meet thee,

diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with my myrr, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with

loves. For the goodman is not at home. He has gone a long journey. He hath taken a bag of money with him

and will come home at the day appointed. With her much fair speech, she caused him to yield. With the flattering of her lips, she forced him.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction

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