TOPICAL BIBLE
Young Men
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Proverbs 4:14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.Proverbs 4:15Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.Proverbs 4:20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.Proverbs 4:21Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.Proverbs 4:22For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.Proverbs 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.Proverbs 4:24Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.Proverbs 4:25Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.Proverbs 4:26Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.Proverbs 4:27Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.Proverbs 5:1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,Proverbs 5:2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,Proverbs 5:4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.Proverbs 5:6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.Proverbs 5:7So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.Proverbs 5:8Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,Proverbs 5:9lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;Proverbs 5:10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.Proverbs 5:11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!Proverbs 5:13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.Proverbs 5:14I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.Proverbs 5:16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?Proverbs 5:17Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.Proverbs 5:18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:Proverbs 5:19A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.Proverbs 5:20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?Proverbs 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.Proverbs 5:23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.Proverbs 6:1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,Proverbs 6:2if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,Proverbs 6:3then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.Proverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.Proverbs 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.Proverbs 6:6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.Proverbs 6:7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,Proverbs 6:8it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?Proverbs 6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,Proverbs 6:11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.Proverbs 6:12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,Proverbs 6:13winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.Proverbs 6:15Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.Proverbs 6:16There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,Proverbs 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,Proverbs 6:19a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.Proverbs 6:21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.Proverbs 6:22When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.Proverbs 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,