Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In Context
14I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”
16Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own 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 →