{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 7,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,"
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:"
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;"
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death."
  }
 ],
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 "next": "/bible/proverbs/8/",
 "html": "https://crawlerschurch.org/bible/proverbs/7/",
 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}