Safeguarding moral purity -- Proverbs 5:15-18

To keep thee from the flattery of the tongue of the strange... (Proverbs 6:24)

I’m teaching our congregation’s men’s Sunday School class this month. The first part of this Sunday’s lesson is based on Proverbs 5:15-18. I’ve pasted in below the rough first draft of my verse-by-verse observations. (The stuff in Spanish is from the Reina-Valera 1960 version of the Bible. Beneath any such usage you will find my translation to English.)

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well” (Proverbs 5:15).

  • Take only that which is yours.
  • Do not drink in sights and experiences which are not yours — not “out there,” not in your house, not on your digital device, not “in here” (tap head).

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