{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T14:24:50.711Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 5 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 5](https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}