Proverbs 5:17 - The Message Your spring water is for you and you only, not to be passed around among strangers. Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man! Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose— don’t ever quit taking delight in her body. Never take her love for granted! Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a prostitute? for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let them be only thine own, And not strangers' with thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Confine yourself to your own wife] let your children be for you alone, and not the children of strangers with you. American Standard Version (1901) Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. Common English Bible They are yours alone, not for you as well as strangers. Catholic Public Domain Version Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee. |