Proverbs for Life
This post is a companion to a previous post: Proverbs & The Sin of Sexual Lust (Part 1)
Proverbs & The Sin of Sexual Lust (Part 2)
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)
Proverbs & The Sin of Sexual Lust (Part 2)
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 Protection of Spiritual Discernment
Proverbs 2:10-11, 16 – “When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee . . . to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”
Proverbs 5:1-3 – “My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: that thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil.”
Proverbs 6:20-24 – “My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.”
Proverbs 7:1-5 – “My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”
Proverbs 29:3 – “Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.”
The Principle of Fleeing Departure
Proverbs 5:7-8 – “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.”
Proverbs 6:25 – “Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
Proverbs 7:24-25 – “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.”
The Precept for Marital Devotion & Delight
Proverbs 5:15-19 – “Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.”
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