Bible verse
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 5:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.
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.
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
KJV
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
ASV
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
ERV
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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