Proverbs 4:1-9
An Exhortation to Acquire Wisdom
Proverbs 4:10-19
How Wisdom Will Keep You Out of Trouble
Proverbs 4:20-27
The Value of Wisdom in Producing Health
Proverbs 5:1-14
Some of The Consequences of Adultery
Proverbs 5:15-23
Encouragement to Moral Purity
Proverbs 6:1-11
Warning Against Laziness
Proverbs 6:12-19
The Description Of a Person Who Stirs up Strife
Proverbs 6:20-35
Instruction About The Tragedy of Adultery
Proverbs 7:1-9
The Son is Exhorted to Heed The Father’s Teaching
Proverbs 7:10-18
How Naive Can You Get?
Proverbs 7:19-27
Lives Are Easily Wrecked by Immorality
Proverbs 8:1-11
Wisdom Offers Her Service to All
Proverbs 8:12-21
Characteristics of Wisdom That Can Become Ours
Proverbs 8:22-36
The Involvement of Wisdom in Creation
Proverbs 9:1-12
The Way of Wisdom
Proverbs 9:13-18
The Way of Folly
Proverbs 10:1-10
How to Redeem The Time
Proverbs 10:11-16
Contrasts in Life
Proverbs 10:17-24
Discipline Brings Quality to Life
Proverbs 10:25-32
The Contrast of Righteousness And Wickedness
Lives Are Easily Wrecked by Immorality
Proverbs 7:19–27
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Some years ago, the most married man in the world was found in Yugoslavia. It happened this way: A young woman confided to her girl cousin of her impending marriage to a man. The bridegroom was so shy and timid that he wanted to keep the marriage a secret. The cousin got curious. … More
This is really a sad story as we read it but even more sad as we see it happen to young men we know personally. Can you think of people you have known who has ruined and wrecked their lives in immorality. Happy is the young man who will heed this warning and live by its instruction.
Obviously this young man got himself into trouble because he wandered near this wicked woman’s house. He was taken in before he realized the tremendous price he would pay by yielding to this temptation. He desperately needed to follow the example of Joseph in (Gen. 39:6-12) by running for his life. By yielding to this terrible act of sin he exposed himself to the dangers of venereal disease or even death by an angry husband as we read about in our papers today. As we read about the downfall of this young man we can see how weak we really are in the flesh. The writer says to pay close attention to what he has to say (v. 24). Our defense must be threefold:
Application
It is important that I discuss with my family how sin begins in our thought life. Talk about the effects of watching wrong T.V., internet programs, or reading wrong magazines. Read (Phil. 4:8).
Proverbs 7:19-27 (English Standard Version)
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