Proverbs 5:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, And not strangers' with thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ [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)

¹⁷ Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ They are yours alone, not for you as well as strangers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.

Proverbs 5:17 Cross References

Proverbs 5:16

Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And rivers of water in the streets?

Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.