Proverbs 2:1-9
The Conditions For Gaining Wisdom
Proverbs 2:10-22
God’s Wisdom Will Protect You From Immoral People
Proverbs 3:1-12
Exhortations to Obedience
Proverbs 3:13-20
The High Value of Wisdom
Proverbs 3:21-26
The Value of Wisdom in Building Relationships
Proverbs 3:27-35
How to Treat Your Neighbors
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
Encouragement to Moral Purity
Proverbs 5:15–23
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The Lord has made provision for man’s happiness, not through immoral entanglements but through the blessings of married life. Marital love with one’s wife is pictured as enjoying one’s cistern or fountain. As a person would not get water from his neighbor’s cistern because he had his own (II Kings 18:31), so a man should have his physical needs met by his own wife, not someone else’s. In verse 20 the question is asked - “And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?" In other words- Why would anyone want to drink from a water supply that is known to be poisoned?
The consequences of adultery should be enough to motivate a person to avoid it (vv. 7-14). However we now find four additional reasons:
Application
I must constantly remind myself of how wonderful the marriage relationship is as God ordained it to be and how terrible sex is outside of marriage. I need to be praying and asking God to keep each member of my family clean and pure and reserved only for the one they marry.
Proverbs 5:15-23 (English Standard Version)
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