#bible #Biblestudy # Proverbs 07 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[Proverbs Overview]] --- ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) ### Another Warning about Immoral Women 7 Follow my advice, my son;     always treasure my commands. 2 Obey my commands and live!     Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes. 3 Tie them on your fingers as a reminder.     Write them deep within your heart. 4 Love wisdom like a sister;     make insight a beloved member of your family. 5 Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,     from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman. 6 While I was at the window of my house,     looking through the curtain, 7 I saw some naive young men,     and one in particular who lacked common sense. 8 He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman,     strolling down the path by her house. 9 It was at twilight, in the evening,     as deep darkness fell. 10 The woman approached him,     seductively dressed and sly of heart. 11 She was the brash, rebellious type,     never content to stay at home. 12 She is often in the streets and markets,     soliciting at every corner. 13 She threw her arms around him and kissed him,     and with a brazen look she said, 14 “I’ve just made my peace offerings     and fulfilled my vows. 15 You’re the one I was looking for!     I came out to find you, and here you are! 16 My bed is spread with beautiful blankets,     with colored sheets of Egyptian linen. 17 I’ve perfumed my bed     with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.     Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses, 19 for my husband is not home.     He’s away on a long trip. 20 He has taken a wallet full of money with him     and won’t return until later this month.” 21 So she seduced him with her pretty speech     and enticed him with her flattery. 22 He followed her at once,     like an ox going to the slaughter. He was like a stag caught in a trap, 23 awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart. He was like a bird flying into a snare,     little knowing it would cost him his life. 24 So listen to me, my sons,     and pay attention to my words. 25 Don’t let your hearts stray away toward her.     Don’t wander down her wayward path. 26 For she has been the ruin of many;     many men have been her victims. 27 Her house is the road to the grave.     Her bedroom --- ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary Each verse is important. --- ## 🤔 Interesting Facts This chapter is another speech about staying sexual moral. This also contains principles for staying away from any type of temptation. - Proverbs 7 is written as a vivid parable, painting a dramatic scene of seduction and destruction. - The “adulterous woman” is a metaphor not just for immorality, but for all forms of spiritual folly and unfaithfulness. - The chapter serves as a cautionary tale, designed to make the reader feel the emotional pull of temptation. - Much of the chapter focuses on setting and tone—twilight, secrecy, persuasive speech—showing temptation’s subtlety. - This is the final warning chapter before the literary climax in chapter 8 with Wisdom personified. --- ## 🧠 Chapter Summary **Main Teaching**: Proverbs 7 vividly portrays the downfall of a young man seduced by an adulterous woman, emphasizing the deadly consequences of ignoring wisdom and moral restraint. It serves as both a cautionary tale and a call to guard one’s heart and desires. **How It Fits in Proverbs**: This chapter continues the extended warning about sexual sin and further personalizes the appeal to pursue wisdom over folly. It reinforces the pattern of using concrete examples to drive home spiritual and moral truths. **Apologetic Insight**: Proverbs 7 provides a strong defense of objective morality in matters of sexuality and self-control. It counters the modern idea that desire defines identity or morality by demonstrating how unchecked passion leads to destruction, not freedom. --- ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application - 📌 Principle: Stay away from temptation - 📌 Principle: A moment of pleasure could equal a life of trouble. - 📌 Principle: Evil will look good for the moment. #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Stay far away from temptation. - ✅ Expect evil to look good, but bring death. - ✅ Think of temptation as an open trap. --- ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember **📖 Proverbs 7:1–2** “My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.” - **Why it matters**: This is a plea for internalizing wisdom and treasuring God’s truth as essential for life and protection. --- ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 Genesis 39:9–12 – Joseph flees from Potiphar’s wife, refusing to sin against God. - 🔗 1 Corinthians 10:13 – “God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear…” - 🔗 James 1:14–15 – “Each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire…” --- ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." --- ## 📂 Tags