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Proverbs 5:22 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. "
Proverbs 5:22
Verse in Context
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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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Proverbs 5:1
"My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:"
Proverbs 5:2
"That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
Proverbs 5:3
"For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:"
Proverbs 5:4
"But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword."
Proverbs 5:5
"Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell."
Proverbs 5:6
"Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know"
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