Bible Verses About Temptation

Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.

Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.

Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?

Or can a man go vpon coales, and his feete not be burnt?

As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.

And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.

Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.