Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house.
(Proverbs 5:8)

At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed…
(Proverbs 5:11)

“I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community.”
(Proverbs 5:14)

Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.
Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams in the public squares?
They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
A loving deer, a graceful doe—
let her breasts always satisfy you;
be lost in her love forever.
Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman?
For a man’s ways are before the LORD’s eyes,
and he considers all his paths.
A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him;
he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
He will die because there is no discipline,
and be lost because of his great stupidity.
(Proverbs 5:15-23)

1. Belonging

A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does. Do not deprive one another… (1 Corinthians 7:4-5)

2. Exclusivity

3. Commitment

For my people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves—
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
(Jeremiah 2:13)

Reflection Question: How have you been tempted to find satisfaction apart from Jesus? Why can we fully trust Him to satisfy us completely?