Proverbs 5:15
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In Context
14I have come to the brink of utter ruin, amongst the gathered assembly.”
16Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have 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 →