Bible verse
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Proverbs 5:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.
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.
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
KJV
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
ASV
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
ERV
Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.
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