Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In Context
14Now I'm on the verge of being completely disgraced before everyone in the community.”
16Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2However, because of the temptation to sexual immorality, it is better that each man 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 →