Links to all Books and Chapters Today's Date: 5/17/2025 ======= Proverbs 5:1 ============ Pro 5:1 My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; (nasb) Pro 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:(kjv) Pro 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my understanding,(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:2 ============ Pro 5:2 That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge. (nasb) Pro 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.(kjv) Pro 5:2 That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:3 ============ Pro 5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech; (nasb) Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:(kjv) Pro 5:3 For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:4 ============ Pro 5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. (nasb) Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.(kjv) Pro 5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:5 ============ Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol. (nasb) Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.(kjv) Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of hell.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:6 ============ Pro 5:6 She does not ponder the path of life; Her ways are unstable, she does not know it. (nasb) Pro 5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.(kjv) Pro 5:6 Lest you ponder her path of life-- Her ways are unstable; You do not know them.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:7 ============ Pro 5:7 Now then, my sons, listen to me And do not depart from the words of my mouth. (nasb) Pro 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.(kjv) Pro 5:7 Therefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:8 ============ Pro 5:8 Keep your way far from her And do not go near the door of her house, (nasb) Pro 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:(kjv) Pro 5:8 Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:9 ============ Pro 5:9 Or you will give your vigor to others And your years to the cruel one; (nasb) Pro 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:(kjv) Pro 5:9 Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:10 ============ Pro 5:10 And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien; (nasb) Pro 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;(kjv) Pro 5:10 Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:11 ============ Pro 5:11 And you groan at your final end, When your flesh and your body are consumed; (nasb) Pro 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,(kjv) Pro 5:11 And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed,(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:12 ============ Pro 5:12 And you say, "How I have hated instruction! And my heart spurned reproof! (nasb) Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;(kjv) Pro 5:12 And say: "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:13 ============ Pro 5:13 "I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined my ear to my instructors! (nasb) Pro 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!(kjv) Pro 5:13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:14 ============ Pro 5:14 "I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation."(nasb) Pro 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.(kjv) Pro 5:14 I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation."(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:15 ============ Pro 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern And fresh water from your own well. (nasb) Pro 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.(kjv) Pro 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:16 ============ Pro 5:16 Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? (nasb) Pro 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.(kjv) Pro 5:16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:17 ============ Pro 5:17 Let them be yours alone And not for strangers with you. (nasb) Pro 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.(kjv) Pro 5:17 Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:18 ============ Pro 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth. (nasb) Pro 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.(kjv) Pro 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:19 ============ Pro 5:19 As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love. (nasb) Pro 5:19 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.(kjv) Pro 5:19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:20 ============ Pro 5:20 For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? (nasb) Pro 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?(kjv) Pro 5:20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:21 ============ Pro 5:21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, And He watches all his paths. (nasb) Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.(kjv) Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, And He ponders all his paths.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:22 ============ Pro 5:22 His own iniquities will capture the wicked, And he will be held with the cords of his sin. (nasb) Pro 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.(kjv) Pro 5:22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 5:23 ============ Pro 5:23 He will die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray. (nasb) Pro 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.(kjv) Pro 5:23 He shall die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 6:1 ============ Pro 6:1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger, (nasb) Pro 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,(kjv) Pro 6:1 My son, if you become surety for your friend, If you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,(nkjv) |
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