Proverbs 5:23
Verse 23 of 23. The 5th of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.
19Let 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.
20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Proverbs 5:23 in the World English Bible
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.Read Proverbs 5:23 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:23
Those that live in this sin promise themselves impunity, but they deceive themselves; their sin will find them out, v. 22, 23. The apostle gives the sense of these verses in a few words. Heb. xiii. 4, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 1. It is a sin which men with great difficulty shake off the power of.
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