Proverbs 5:15
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
16Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband. Have his own wife... That is, keep to his wife, which he hath. His meaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry: on the contrary, he would have them rather continue as they are, (Ver. 7:8.) But he speaks here to them that are already married; who must not depart from one another, but live together as they ought to do in the marriage state.
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 →