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Proverbs 5:20

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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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  1. Proverbs 5:18

    Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

  2. Proverbs 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.

  3. Proverbs 5:21

    For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

  4. Proverbs 5:22

    His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.