Bible Verses About Temptation

so that you won't give your vigor to others and your years to someone who is cruel,

so strangers won't be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.

Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk, at the end of your life, you would moan,

"How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,

I ignored what my teachers said, I didn't listen to my instructors.

I took part in almost every kind of evil, and the whole community knew it."

Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.

Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside, streams of water flowing in the streets;

but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.

Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her

a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.

My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman? Why embrace the body of a loose woman?

For ADONAI is watching a man's ways; he surveys all his paths.

Can a man carry fire inside his shirt without burning his clothes?

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

For I was at the window of my house, glancing out through the lattice,

when I saw among the young men there, among those who don't think for themselves, a young fellow devoid of all sense.

He crosses the street near her corner and continues on toward her house.

Dusk turns into evening, and finally night, dark and black.

Then a woman approaches him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.

She's the coarse, impulsive type, whose feet don't stay at home;

rather, she stalks the streets and squares, lurking at every streetcorner.

She grabs him, gives him a kiss, and, brazen-faced, she says to him,

"I had to offer peace sacrifices, and I fulfilled my vows today.

This is why I came out to meet you, to look for you; now I've found you.