>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/prov/7?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07807::c07807) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/proverbs/7.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Proverbs/7.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/pro/7/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Solomon addresses his teachings to his children, warning them from a place of experience to avoid the temptations that can lead one astray from righteousness. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>A wise teacher tells a story about a young man who doesn't make good choices and ends up in trouble because he doesn't listen to advice. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The chapter warns against succumbing to temptation and the dangers of ignoring wisdom. A young man without understanding wanders into a trap set by a cunning woman, who leads him into sin. The story highlights the importance of keeping God's commandments and wisdom close to avoid paths that lead to destruction and death. > >#Gospel/Wisdom #Gospel/Chastity #Gospel/Obedience ###### 1 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. ###### 2 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. ###### 3 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. ###### 4 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: ###### 5 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. ###### 6 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, ###### 7 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, ###### 8 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, ###### 9 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: ###### 10 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. ###### 11 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: ###### 12 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) ###### 13 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, ###### 14 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. ###### 15 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. ###### 16 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. ###### 17 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ###### 18 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. ###### 19 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: ###### 20 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. ###### 21 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. ###### 22 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; ###### 23 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. ###### 24 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. ###### 25 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. ###### 26 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. ###### 27 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.