Avoiding Immorality
Proverbs 5:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- KJV
- ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- WEB
- Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
- ASV
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
- LSV
- Drink waters out of your own cistern, || Even flowing ones out of your own well.
- YLT
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
- DBY
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- DRC
- Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
- GNV
- Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
- JPS
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- LXXE
- Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells.
Word by word Hebrew · tap a word
Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- שְׁתֵה־מַ֥יִם מִבּוֹרֶ֑ךָ וְ֝נֹזְלִ֗ים מִתּ֥וֹךְ בְּאֵרֶֽךָ׃
- LXX-Br
- Πίνε ὕδατα ἀπὸ σῶν ἀγγείων, καὶ ἀπὸ σῶν φρεάτων πηγῆς.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Corinthians 7:2–5But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife…
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Proverbs 5:18–19May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).