Proverbs for Life
The book of the Proverbs is written from the perspective of a father who is providing spiritual counsel to his young-adult son. With such a perspective, this book of God’s Holy Word presents a significant amount of admo-nition concerning the sin of sexual lust. Even so, in the book of the Proverbs we find admonition concerning:
I. The Power of Temptation’s Deception
II. The Pathway to Utter Destruction
III. The Protection of Spiritual Discernment
IV. The Principle of Fleeing Departure
V. The Precept for Marital Devotion & Delight
The book of the Proverbs is written from the perspective of a father who is providing spiritual counsel to his young-adult son. With such a perspective, this book of God’s Holy Word presents a significant amount of admo-nition concerning the sin of sexual lust. Even so, in the book of the Proverbs we find admonition concerning:
I. The Power of Temptation’s Deception
II. The Pathway to Utter Destruction
III. The Protection of Spiritual Discernment
IV. The Principle of Fleeing Departure
V. The Precept for Marital Devotion & Delight
The Power of Temptation’s Deception
Proverbs 2:16 – “To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”
Proverbs 5:3, 6 – “For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil . . . . Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.”
Proverbs 6:23-24 – “To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
Proverbs 7:5-21 – “That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: and, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: he hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.”
Proverbs 9:13-17 – “A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, to call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Proverbs 23:28 – “She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.”
Proverbs 30:20 – “Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.”
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