Avoiding Immorality
Leviticus 20:10–21; 1 Corinthians 5:1–8
1My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:+ 2That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.+ 3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:+ 4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.+ 5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;+ 6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.+ 7Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.+ 8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;+ 9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;+ 10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,+ 11And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,+ 12And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;+ 13Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!+ 14I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.+ 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.+ 16Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?+ 17Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. 18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.+ 19[As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.+ 20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?+ 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.+ 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.+ 23He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.+