Proverbs 5:16

New Century Version

Don’t pour your water in the streets; don’t give your love to just any woman.

Cross References

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of people, and may your descendants capture the cities of their enemies.”

Psalm 127:3

Children are a gift from the Lord; babies are a reward.

Psalm 128:3

Your wife will give you many children, like a vine that produces much fruit. Your children will bring you much good, like olive branches that produce many olives.

Psalm 68:26

Praise God in the meeting place; praise the Lord in the gathering of Israel.

Proverbs 5:15

Be faithful to your own wife, just as you drink water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:17

These things are yours alone and shouldn’t be shared with strangers.

Proverbs 5:18

Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. She gives you joy, as your fountain gives you water.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen water is sweeter, and food eaten in secret tastes better.”

Song of Solomon 4:12

My sister, my bride, you are like a garden locked up, like a walled-in spring, a closed-up fountain.

Song of Solomon 4:15

You are like a garden fountain— a well of fresh water flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.

Isaiah 48:21

They did not become thirsty when he led them through the deserts. He made water flow from a rock for them. He split the rock, and water flowed out.

Deuteronomy 33:28

The people of Israel will lie down in safety. Jacob’s spring is theirs alone. Theirs is a land full of grain and new wine, where the skies drop their dew.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He let his daughters marry men who were not in his family group, and he brought thirty women who were not in his tribe to be wives for his sons. Ibzan judged Israel for seven years.