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Proverbs 7 (KJV)
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My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
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Keep my commandments, and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
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Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the table of thine heart.
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
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Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,
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In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night:
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And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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(She is loud and stubborn; Her feet abide not in her house:
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Now is she without, now in the streets, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
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So she caught him, and kissed him, And with an impudent face said unto him,
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I have peace offerings with me; This day have I payed my vows.
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, With carved works , with fine linen of Egypt.
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I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: Let us solace ourselves with loves.
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For the goodman is not at home, He is gone a long journey:
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He hath taken a bag of money with him, And will come home at the day appointed.
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, With the flattering of her lips she forced him.
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He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
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Till a dart strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
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Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, And attend to the words of my mouth.
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways, Go not astray in her paths.
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For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
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Her house is the way to hell, Going down to the chambers of death.
Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV).
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