Proverbs 5Proverbs 6Proverbs 7Galatians 3.1-14Proverbs 5
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My son, give attention to my wisdom let your ear be turned to my teaching:
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So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
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For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword
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Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld
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She never keeps her mind on the road of life her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
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Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
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Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house
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For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
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And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others
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And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted
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And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training
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I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
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I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
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Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
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Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
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Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
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Let blessing be on your fountain have joy in the wife of your early years.
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As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
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Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
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For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
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The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
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He will come to his end for need of teaching he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
Proverbs 6
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My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
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You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
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Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
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Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them
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Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
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Go to the ant, you hater of work give thought to her ways and be wise:
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Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
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How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
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Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
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A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer he goes on his way causing trouble with false words
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Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers
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His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
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For this cause his downfall will be sudden quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
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Six things are hated by the Lord seven things are disgusting to him:
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Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause
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A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin
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A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
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My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
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Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
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In your walking, it will be your guide when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
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For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
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They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
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Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body let not her eyes take you prisoner.
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For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
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May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
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Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
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So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
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Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
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But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
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He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
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Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
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For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.
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He will not take any payment and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
Proverbs 7
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My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
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Keep my rules and you will have life let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes
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Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
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Say to wisdom, You are my sister let knowledge be named your special friend:
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So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
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Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
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I saw among the young men one without sense,
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Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
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At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
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And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart
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She is full of noise and uncontrolled her feet keep not in her house.
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Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
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So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
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I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
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So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
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My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt
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I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
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Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
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For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
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He has taken a bag of money with him he is coming back at the full moon.
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With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
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The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord
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Like a bird falling into a net with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
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So now, my sons, give ear to me give attention to the sayings of my mouth
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Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
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For those wounded and made low by her are great in number and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
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Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
Galatians 3
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O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?
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Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?
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Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.
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He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?
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Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
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Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
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And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
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So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.
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For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
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Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear because, The upright will be living by faith.
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And the law is not of faith but, He who does them will have life by them.
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Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
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So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.
