Proverbs 5:15
Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In Context
14I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
16Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
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 →