Bible Verses About Temptation

Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,

And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way to her house he doth step,

In the twilight--in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

And, lo, a woman to meet him--(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

Noisy she is , and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

`Sacrifices of peace-offerings are by me, To-day I have completed my vows.

Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.