My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.Proverbs 7:1

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.Proverbs 7:2

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.Proverbs 7:3

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:Proverbs 7:4

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.Proverbs 7:5

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,Proverbs 7:6

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,Proverbs 7:7

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,Proverbs 7:8

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:Proverbs 7:9

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.Proverbs 7:10

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:Proverbs 7:11

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)Proverbs 7:12

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,Proverbs 7:13

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.Proverbs 7:14

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.Proverbs 7:15

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.Proverbs 7:16

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.Proverbs 7:17

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.Proverbs 7:18

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:Proverbs 7:19

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.Proverbs 7:20

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.Proverbs 7:21

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;Proverbs 7:22

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.Proverbs 7:23

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.Proverbs 7:24

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.Proverbs 7:25

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.Proverbs 7:26

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.Proverbs 7:27