Proverbs 5:15-17

Warning Against Adultery

¹⁵ Drink _o water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your _p springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water _q in the streets?
¹⁷ _r Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.

1. Cross References
   Proverbs 5:18
   Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
   Proverbs 9:17
   "Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
   Song of Solomon 4:12
   A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.
   Song of Solomon 4:15
   A garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
   Jeremiah 2:13
   For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 68:26
   "Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel's fountain!"
   
3. Cross References
   Jeremiah 9:21
   For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
   Zechariah 8:5
   And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
   
4. Cross References
   Proverbs 14:10
   The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.