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Proverbs 5:17

Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

In Context

16Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.

18Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:

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Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:16-23

Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 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. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange… Read the whole commentary →

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