Five-year Bible reading plan for 20 July 2019

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Proverbs, Chapter 5

¹ Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom, ³ He showeth the mischief of whoredom and riot, ¹⁵ He exhorteth to contentedness, liberality, and chastity, ²² The wicked are overtaken with their on sins

¹My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

²That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

³For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

⁶Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

⁷Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

⁸Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

⁹Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

¹¹And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

¹³And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

¹⁴I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

¹⁶Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

¹⁹Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

²⁰And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

²²His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

²³He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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5 A farther exhortation to wisdom, Pro 5:1-2.
A caution against whoredom, Pro 5:3-14.
Remedies against it, Pro 5:15-23.

5:3 The lips - It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those temptations to which thou art exposed.

5:4 But - The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction.

5:5 Feet - Her manner of life.

5:6 Lest - To prevent thy serious consideration. Moveable - She transforms herself into several shapes, and has a thousand arts to ensnare. Know - Thou canst not discover all her practice.

5:9 Honour - Thy dignity and reputation, the strength of thy body and mind. Years - The flower of thine age. The cruel - To the harlot, who though she pretends love, yet in truth is one of the most cruel creatures in the world, wasting thy estate and body without pity, and damming thy soul for ever.

5:10 Strangers - Not only the strange women themselves, but others who are in league with them. Labors - Wealth gotten by thy labours.

5:14 A moment - In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly - And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things.

5:15 Drink - Content thyself with those delights which God alloweth thee in the sober use of the marriage - bed.

5:16 Fountains - Thy children proceeding from thy wife and from thyself. Fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them.Dispersed - They shall in due time appear abroad to thy comfort, and for the good of others.

5:18 Fountain - Thy wife. Blessed - With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.

5:19 Satisfy thee - At all convenient times: for that there may be excess in the marriage - bed is manifest. Ravished - Love her fervently.It is an hyperbolical expression.

5:22 Holden - He is in perfect bondage to his lusts, and is neither able nor wiling to set himself at liberty.

5:23 Die - He shall die in his sins. Astray - From the way of life, and from eternal salvation.

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Once again we hear a warning against becoming infatuated with other men's wives, and we are already prepared to interpret it broadly as...

It is doubtless, that sex occupies a considerable place in human life. And it is without that it isn’t a human invention. God, who created the person as man and woman and who gave them the order...

It is doubtless, that sex occupies a considerable place in human life. And it is without that it isn’t a human invention. God, who created the person as man and woman and who gave them the order: "be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth" (Gen. 1:27-28), - put in His plan for man this love connection of two: "shall be one flesh" (see Gen. 2 24; Matt. 19:5; Mk. 10:8; Eph. 5:31).

God's word speaks several times about love, not only spiritual, but also physical. There is a whole book about this love – Solomon! Why then people often consider this subject almost as sinful, why the obvious and unobvious of the ideal of Christian life moves in the monachal part, and besides not only in " the historic confessions"?

It is clear that sex is not a sin, quite as is not, let’s say food. It is man who can make it sin, quite as he can make food to be sin – sin of gluttony, to eat more than it is necessary. Sin appears there, where the purpose doesn’t correspond with God’s plan, with His will. Sex is one of the means of acquisition of unity in love between man and woman, along with other means (mutual assistance, collaboration, mutual understanding etc.) forming in such form of the human life, as marriage, that is the realization of constancy in love.

That is why the positive mention of sex in the Bible is always connected with marriage. But the fall destroys first of all in particular the presence of love in man, his aspiration to love; it is exactly here that penetrates the distortion. And the sexual sphere, being very close to the presence of love in man, suffers most. Sin substitutes the purpose of sex, reducing it into pleasure, satisfaction, so marriage stops being the only context of sex: fornication, lasciviousness, adultery appear then. What was intended by God for life, including - for the creation of life, becomes the way to death.

Thus, sex is gorgeous and blessed by God, when it is of use to the eternal union of husband and wife; sex is perdition and impure before God, when it is selfish and momentary, when it is sex for the sake of sex.

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