Proverbs 5

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Proverbs 5:11

At the End of Your Life December 31, 1865 by C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) “At the end of your life.”--Proverbs 5:11 The wise man saw a young and foolish man straying into the house of the adulterous woman. The house seemed so completely different from what he knew it to be, that he desired to shed a light on it, that the young man might not sin in the dark, but might understand the nature of his actions. The wise man looked around, and he saw only one lamp suitable for his purpose; it... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Proverbs 5:22

Sinners Bound with the Cords of Sin February 13th, 1870 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins." Proverbs 5:22 . The first sentence has reference to a net, in which birds or beasts are taken. The ungodly man first of all finds sin to be a bait, and, charmed by its apparent pleasantness he indulges in it, and then he becomes entangled in its meshes so that he cannot escape. That which first attracted... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

Chapter 5Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge ( Proverbs 5:1 , Proverbs 5:2 ).And now he's going to warn his son again about the strange woman.For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood ( Proverbs 5:3-4 ),Now, though her lips drop like a honeycomb, all the sweetness and sugar and all, yet the end is bitter. Bitter... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:1-23

Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman. Their number is now alarming to the state. The men who support them are equal in number. Asylums are inadequate to remedy the hundredth part of the evil. In the purer ages of patriarchal society, they were put to death. When Tamar was pregnant, Judah said, “Bring her forth, and let her be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:1-14

Proverbs 5:1-14My son, attend unto my wisdom. Caution against sexual sinsThe scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so violent, the examples of which are so many, and which, where admitted, are so destructive to all the seeds of virtue in the soul. We are warned--I. That we do not listen to the charms of this sin.1. How fatal the consequences will be! The terrors of conscience. The torments of hell.2. How... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:2

Proverbs 5:2That thou mayest regard discretion.The wise man’s intention in giving adviceSome knit these words to what follows, and understand them thus: “I wish thee to hearken to wise counsels, that thy heart may not admit thoughts of the beauty of strumpets, nor thy lips talk of such wanton objects as they talk of, but that thy thoughts and words may be sober and honest.” Others knit them to the words before, as if he had said, “Observe my wise precepts, that thou mayest well ruminate of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:3-5

Proverbs 5:3-5For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb.A strange womanOne outside of the true family bonds and relationships. This description has been regarded by expositors as having a double sense.1. It is a portrait of a harlot, especially one of foreign extraction.2. It is a representation of the allurements of unsound doctrine and corrupt worship.I. We have here a description of the strange woman.1. Her vile, unclean, flattering, enticing speech.2. Her fate: her end bitter,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:6

Proverbs 5:6Her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. The movable ways of the tempterThe wiseman lets us know how foolish it is for men to flatter themselves with the hope that they shall by and by be truly disposed and enabled to repent of their sin. The temptress can form her mode of behaviour into a hundred shapes to entangle the heart of the lover. She spreads a thousand snares, and if you escape one of them, you will find yourself held fast by another. She knows well how to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:9

Proverbs 5:9Lest thou give thine honour unto others.A man’s honour sunk in sensualityA good name is better than precious ointment, but of a good name this abominable sin is the ruin. The credit of David and of Solomon was greatly sunk by it. By it has the honour of thousands been irretrievably lost. Life is a great blessing, and may be regarded as the foundation of every earthly blessing. But unclean persons part with everything that renders life worthy of the name, and in a literal sense, they... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:11

Proverbs 5:11And thou mourn at the last. Dying regretsReligion has one undeniable advantage to recommend it--whatever it calls us to sacrifice or to suffer, it always ends well. On the other hand, sin has one undeniable evil to excite our aversion and horror--whatever sensual pleasures and imaginary profit attend its course, it always ends awfully.I. The subject of these regrets. It is a man who has disregarded through life the means employed to preserve or reclaim him. Man’s instructors and... read more

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Proverbs 5:11

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Proverbs 5:22

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:1-23

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:2

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:3-5

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:6

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:9

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:11

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