Proverbs Chapter 5

Pro 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Pro 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Discretion means prudence or knowledge with discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper. It means to use caution in one's conduct. This is such good advice for our daily living. If we give heed to it, we will avoid so much trouble. Just use discernment and wisdom in all that we do.

Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

This could also apply for a woman when dealing with a man of smooth talk and deceptive ways.

Fornication is rampant in our society and it is destroying families. It will destroy society eventually. Not only is it a risk for disease but it deceives us. It makes light of true commitment that God intended for us to have. When a man and woman marry, bear children and provide a stable home, the children are far less likely to stray and fall into evil.

If we don't do that and they children stray from the right path, they grow up and do the same. Soon a society has no moral values and no restraints. This eventually leads to chaos and lawlessness. Society then becomes tired of lawlessness and allows a dictator, usually an evil one to rule in order to restore order.

Democracy is the best government but it will not work without moral restraint. In other words, it will not work without God and the adherence to God's word.

Pro 5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.
Pro 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Pro 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

This is what happens when we give in to evil. We lose our honor, the cruel and vain persons reign, others inherit our wealth. Our labors are vain and we lose all we have.

Pro 5:9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Pro 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
Pro 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Pro 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Since mankind has existed, those that have forsaken the good way have always ended up in ruin and suffered loss. No society exists without God for long before it crumbles. The ones that have had the most knowledge of God yet forsake Him, usually fall first. Judgment begins at the house of God.

Pro 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Pro 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Pro 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Pro 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Pro 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

God hates divorce and is pleased when we marry once and remain faithful to the one we made a commitment to.

Pro 5:19 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.
Pro 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Again, adultery and fornication destroys both body, soul, families and society.

Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Pro 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Pro 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

He will not only go astray but influence his children to do the same. Much we see in the media, TV, and movies are also influencing children.  The media has a way to make evil look respectable and cause good to look evil.  We must not be deceived by it.  Who would have believed that abortion would be legal and few years ago?  Who would have even considered gay marriage? Sleeping around is not considered normal.  Where did we get this new morality?  The media. 

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