Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In Context
14I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman 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 →