6 For at the window | stubborn: her feet abide of my house I looked 8 in They that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 1 Th. 5.7.- If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. 1 Jno. 1. 6. 10 And, behold there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and not in her house: 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) Idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and which they ought not. 1 'Ti. busybodies, speaking things 5. 13. Teach the young women to be sober,... discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Tit. 2. 4, 5. 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. Will ye... commit adultery, ... and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Je. 7. 9, 10. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. the snare: so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. Ec. 9. 12.-Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. Ju. 16. 6. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to thesnare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Ho. 4. 11. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on 21 With her much fair walk honestly, as in the day; the armour of light. Let us speech she caused him not in rioting and drunkento yield, with the flat-ness, not in chambering and tering of her lips she forced him. Man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in envying. Ro. 13. 12, 13. wantonness, not in strife and 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. King Solomon loved many strange women. 1 Ki. 11. 1. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Co. 9. 27. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshlylusts,which war against the soul. 1 Pe. 2. 11. Mortify... your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Col. 3. 5. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace. 2 Ti. 2. 22. This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. Mat. 17. 5. 2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. 3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. 4 Unto you, O men, call; and my voice is to the sons of man. I If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. Jno. 7. 37.-Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mar. 16. 15. 5 O ye simple, understand wisdom; and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. 6 Hear: for I will of speak excellent things; and the open desired are not to be compared to it. ing of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomina-for the price thereof. Whence tion to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. Jno. 7. 17. 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Mar. 8. 36, 37. 11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? God understandknoweth the place thereof. eth the way thereof, and he And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. Job 28. 15, 20, 23, 28. Let no man deceive him self. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise, 1 Co. 3. 18. 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty in ventions. For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts. which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. Is. 28. 26, 29. There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse ; and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord. Is. 11. 1, 2.-In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Col. 2. 3. 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Mic. 6. 8. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Ps. 45. 7. 14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to Jesus came and spake saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Mat. 28. 18. 17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he |