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Read Full Chapter (Proverbs 5) Proverbs 5:22-23 KJV
"His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray."
Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 22-23
Proverbs 5:22-23 in Context (Verses 19–23 KJV)
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Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.**
20
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
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¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.*
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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.