Proverbs for Life
This post is a companion to a previous post: Proverbs & The Sin of Sexual Lust (Part 1)
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 admonition 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
This post is a companion to a previous post: Proverbs & The Sin of Sexual Lust (Part 1)
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 admonition 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 Pathway to Utter Destruction
Proverbs 2:16-19 – “To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.”
Proverbs 5:3-14, 20-23 – “For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; and thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, and say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly . . . . And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.”
Proverbs 6:26-35 – “For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; but if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.”
Proverbs 7:22-27 – “He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.”
Proverbs 9:18 – “But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.”
Proverbs 22:14 – “The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.”
Proverbs 23:27-28 – “For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.”
Proverbs 29:3b – “But he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.”
Proverbs 31:3 – “Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.”
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