Proverbs 5:7
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
In Context
6so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, [and] she does not know.
8Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,
Cross References
Proverbs 3:21My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,
Proverbs 4:21Let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thy heart.
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Hebrews 12:25Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →