Proverbs 5:15

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.”

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BSBPD

“Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 5:15 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Proverbs 5:18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
  3. Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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