Proverbs 5:15
Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well [MET], enjoy having sex [EUP] only with your own wife.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In Context
14Now I am almost ruined, and I will be disgraced in public gatherings.”
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2But because many people are committing sexual immorality, which God detests, every man should have his own wife with whom he can have sexual relations, and every woman should have her own husband with whom she can have sexual relations.
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 →