Proverbs 5:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

And don't be like a stream from which just any woman may take a drink.

Cross References

Genesis 24:60

They gave Rebekah their blessing and said, “We pray that God will give you many children and grandchildren and that he will help them defeat their enemies.”

Psalm 127:3

Children are a blessing and a gift from the LORD.

Psalm 128:3

Your wife will be as fruitful as a grapevine, and just as an olive tree is rich with olives, your home will be rich with healthy children.

Psalm 68:26

They come shouting, “People of Israel, praise the LORD God!”

Proverbs 5:15

You should be faithful to your wife, just as you take water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:17

Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.

Proverbs 5:18

Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water tastes best, and the food you eat in secret tastes best of all.”

Song of Solomon 4:12

My bride, my very own, you are a garden, a fountain closed off to all others.

Song of Solomon 4:15

You are a spring in the garden, a fountain of pure water, and a refreshing stream from Mount Lebanon.

Isaiah 48:21

He led us through the desert and made water flow from a rock to satisfy our thirst.

Deuteronomy 33:28

Israel, you will live in safety; your enemies will be gone. The dew will fall from the sky, and you will have plenty of grain and wine.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty daughters and thirty sons, and he let them all marry outside his clan. Ibzan was a leader for seven years,