Warning Against Sinful Enticement

Proverbs 1:8-19

My son, heed the discipline of your father, and do not abandon the teaching of your mother;

they will be a garland to grace your head, a medal of honor for your neck.

My son, if sinners entice you, don't go along with them.

Suppose they say, "Come with us: we'll ambush somebody and kill him, we'll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;

we'll swallow him alive, like Sh'ol, whole, like those who descend to the pit;

we'll find everything he has of value, we'll fill our homes with loot!

Throw in your lot with us; we'll share a common purse"-

my son, don't go along with them, don't set foot on their path;

Their feet run to evil, they rush to shed blood.

For in vain is the net baited if any bird can see it;

rather, they are ambushing themselves to shed their own blood, waylaying themselves.

So are the ways of all greedy for gain -it takes the lives of those who get it.