Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Book of Proverbs
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Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:1 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:1 JFB -> Commentary on 5:1 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:1 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:1 TSK -> Commentary on 5:1 TSK -> Entry for 5:1 WEN -> Notes on 5:1 NTB -> Children; Young Men TTT -> Ear, The 5:1 - [In Context] My son, listen to my wise teaching. Pay attention to my words of understanding.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:2 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:2 JFB -> Commentary on 5:2 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:2 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:2 TSK -> Commentary on 5:2 TSK -> Entry for 5:2 WEN -> Notes on 5:2 NTB -> Children; Young Men 5:2 - [In Context] Then you will remember to live wisely and watch what you say.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:3 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:3 JFB -> Commentary on 5:3 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:3 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:3 TSK -> Commentary on 5:3 TSK -> Entry for 5:3 WEN -> Notes on 5:3 NTB -> Adultery; Flattery; Lasciviousness; Women; Young Men TTT -> Honey; Oil EBD -> Honey 5:3 - [In Context] Another man's wife might be very charming; the words from her lips so sweet and inviting.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:4 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:4 JFB -> Commentary on 5:4 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:4 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:4 TSK -> Commentary on 5:4 TSK -> Entry for 5:4 WEN -> Notes on 5:4 NTB -> Adultery; Lasciviousness; Women; Wormwood; Young Men TTT -> Arms, Military; Sword, The EBD -> Hemlock; Sword; Wormwood 5:4 - [In Context] But in the end, she will bring only bitterness and pain. It will be like bitter poison and a sharp sword!
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:5 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:5 JFB -> Commentary on 5:5 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:5 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:5 SRN -> Study Notes on 5:5 TSK -> Commentary on 5:5 TSK -> Entry for 5:5 WEN -> Notes on 5:5 NTB -> Adultery; Hell; Lasciviousness; Women; Young Men TTT -> Hell 5:5 - [In Context] She is on a path leading to death. She will lead you straight to the grave!
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:6 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:6 JFB -> Commentary on 5:6 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:6 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:6 TSK -> Commentary on 5:6 TSK -> Entry for 5:6 WEN -> Notes on 5:6 NTB -> Adultery; Women; Young Men 5:6 - [In Context] Don't follow her! She has lost the right way and doesn't know it. Be careful! Follow the way that leads to life!
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:7 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:7 JFB -> Commentary on 5:7 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:7 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:7 TSK -> Commentary on 5:7 TSK -> Entry for 5:7 WEN -> Notes on 5:7 NTB -> Adultery; Remorse; Women; Young Men 5:7 - [In Context] Now my sons, listen to me. Don't forget the words I say.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:8 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:8 JFB -> Commentary on 5:8 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:8 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:8 TSK -> Commentary on 5:8 TSK -> Entry for 5:8 WEN -> Notes on 5:8 NTB -> Adultery; Company; Lasciviousness; Remorse; Women; Young Men 5:8 - [In Context] Stay away from the woman who does the sin of adultery. F5 Don't even go near the door of her house.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:9 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:9 JFB -> Commentary on 5:9 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:9 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:9 TSK -> Commentary on 5:9 TSK -> Entry for 5:9 WEN -> Notes on 5:9 NTB -> Adultery; Lasciviousness; Remorse; Women; Young Men 5:9 - [In Context] If you do, then other people will get the honor you should have had. And some stranger will get all the things you worked years to get.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:10 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:10 JFB -> Commentary on 5:10 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:10 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:10 TSK -> Commentary on 5:10 TSK -> Entry for 5:10 WEN -> Notes on 5:10 NTB -> Adultery; Lasciviousness; Remorse; Women; Young Men 5:10 - [In Context] People you don't know will take all your wealth. Other people will get the things you worked for.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:11 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:11 JFB -> Commentary on 5:11 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:11 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:11 TSK -> Commentary on 5:11 TSK -> Entry for 5:11 WEN -> Notes on 5:11 NTB -> Adultery; Lasciviousness; Remorse; Women; Young Men 5:11 - [In Context] At the end of your life, you will be sad that you ruined your health and lost everything you had.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:12 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:12 JFB -> Commentary on 5:12 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:12 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:12 TSK -> Commentary on 5:12 TSK -> Entry for 5:12 WEN -> Notes on 5:12 NTB -> Adultery; Lasciviousness; Remorse; Self-Condemnation; Wisdom; Women; Young Men TTT -> Reproof 5:12 - [In Context]
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:13 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:13 JFB -> Commentary on 5:13 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:13 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:13 TSK -> Commentary on 5:13 TSK -> Entry for 5:13 WEN -> Notes on 5:13 NTB -> Adultery; Lasciviousness; Remorse; Self-Condemnation; Women; Young Men 5:13 - [In Context] Then you will say, "Why didn't I listen to my parents? Why didn't I listen to my teachers? I refused to be disciplined. I refused to be corrected.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:14 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:14 JFB -> Commentary on 5:14 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:14 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:14 TSK -> Commentary on 5:14 TSK -> Entry for 5:14 WEN -> Notes on 5:14 NTB -> Adultery; Women; Young Men 5:14 - [In Context] So now I have suffered through almost every kind of trouble people can have--and everyone knows it!"
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:15 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:15 JFB -> Commentary on 5:15 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:15 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:15 TSK -> Commentary on 5:15 TSK -> Entry for 5:15 WEN -> Notes on 5:15 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; Cistern; Husband; Water; Women; Young Men TTT -> Wells EBD -> Cistern 5:15 - [In Context]
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:16 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:16 JFB -> Commentary on 5:16 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:16 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:16 TSK -> Commentary on 5:16 TSK -> Entry for 5:16 WEN -> Notes on 5:16 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; Husband; Women; Young Men EBD -> River 5:16 - [In Context] Drink only the water that flows from your own well. And don't let your water flow out into the streets. {You must have sexual relations only with your own wife. Don't become the father of children outside your own home.}
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:17 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:17 JFB -> Commentary on 5:17 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:17 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:17 WEN -> Notes on 5:17 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; Husband; Women; Young Men 5:17 - [In Context] Your children should belong only to you. You should not have to share them with people out of your own home.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:18 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:18 JFB -> Commentary on 5:18 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:18 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:18 TSK -> Commentary on 5:18 TSK -> Entry for 5:18 WEN -> Notes on 5:18 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; Husband; Women; Young Men TTT -> Fountains and Springs 5:18 - [In Context] So, be happy with your own wife. Enjoy the woman you married while you were young.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:19 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:19 JFB -> Commentary on 5:19 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:19 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:19 TSK -> Commentary on 5:19 TSK -> Entry for 5:19 WEN -> Notes on 5:19 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; Deer; Husband; Women; Young Men TTT -> Hart, The; Husbands; Roe, The EBD -> Hind; Roe SBD -> Hind 5:19 - [In Context] She is like a beautiful deer, a lovely fawn. Let her love satisfy you completely. Let her love intoxicate you always.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:20 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:20 JFB -> Commentary on 5:20 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:20 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:20 TSK -> Commentary on 5:20 TSK -> Entry for 5:20 WEN -> Notes on 5:20 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; Women; Young Men EBD -> Harlot 5:20 - [In Context] But don't go staggering into the arms of another woman!
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:21 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:21 JFB -> Commentary on 5:21 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:21 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:21 TSK -> Commentary on 5:21 TSK -> Entry for 5:21 WEN -> Notes on 5:21 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; God (continued); Heart; Young Men TTT -> God; Man 5:21 - [In Context] The Lord clearly sees everything you do. The Lord watches where you go.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:22 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:22 JFB -> Commentary on 5:22 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:22 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:22 TSK -> Commentary on 5:22 TSK -> Entry for 5:22 WEN -> Notes on 5:22 NTB -> Adultery; Cord; Death; Rope; Sin; Young Men EBD -> Cord 5:22 - [In Context] The sins of an evil person will trap him. His sins will be like ropes holding him.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 5:23 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:23 JFB -> Commentary on 5:23 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:23 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:23 TSK -> Commentary on 5:23 TSK -> Entry for 5:23 WEN -> Notes on 5:23 NTB -> Death; Sin; Young Men 5:23 - [In Context] That evil person will die because he refused to be disciplined. He will be trapped by his own desires.
FOOTNOTES: F5: adultery   Breaking the marriage promise by sexual sin.

Abbreviations Legend: GEB - Gill's Exposition; GSB - Geneva Study Bible; JFB - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown; MHC-COM - Matthew Henry Complete; MHC-CON - Matthew Henry Concise; SRN - Scofield Reference Notes; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; WEN - Wesley's Explanatory Notes; NTB - Nave's Topical Bible; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; TTT - Torrey's Topical Textbook; EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary; SBD - Smith's Bible Dictionary; Copyright Statement - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version © 2001 by World Bible Translation Center, Inc. and used by permission.