Bible verse

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:15 · BSB

Proverbs 5:15 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.

11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

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Proverbs 5:15 in other translations

KJV

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

ASV

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

ERV

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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