Bible Verses About Temptation

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.