Just some words for thought. I thought this would bless someone...
The lips of an adulterer drip honey. They are sweet talkers and know just the right thing to say to push your buttons. Their speech is smoother than oil, dripping in innuendo and perverse language; but in the end, those words lead to death... they are as bitter as gall, sharp as a sharply double-edged sword.
Their feet go down to death; their steps lead straight to the grave, and their ways produce death in every possible way. They give no thought to the way of life that pleases God, no thought to their families or who they hurt, their children, no one, but themselves. They are selfish to the core. It is all about what they want and what they will do to get it. Their paths are crooked, but they are so corrupt and lost in sin they don't even know it, as a fish doesn't know that its wet. These words will save you also from the adulterer, from the wayward spouse with their seductive words. They have left the partner of their youth, their spouses in confusion, ignoring the covenant they made before God. Their house leads down to death and their paths to the spirits of the dead. None who go to into their house and share their bed return to life, or attain the paths of life. No one who touches someone's spouse will go unpunished! No amount of money will quench their anger against you, and they will show you no mercy.
Now then people listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say!
Keep to a path far from them as possible, do not touch! Don't believe their words! Do not go near the door of their house!
This is your lot if you do: you will give your heart, mind, and strength to another and it will not be reciprocated, and your years to one who is cruel and doesn't care about you. Strangers will feast on your wealth and bleed you dry, and your toil will benefit another person's house. At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent and all of your wealth from your youth is gone.
You will say to yourself, "How I hated discipline! They tried to tell me to leave them alone, I didn't listen... How my heart spurned correction! How I chose to go my own way instead of God's way. I would not obey my teachers, my pastor, my elders, my friends, or listen to my instructors.Look what I have done, I have come to the brink of utter ruin and now everyone knows it. Who can heap burning coals into their laps and not get burned? Certainly not me.
"If only I drank water from my own cup, the Spirit of God which resides in me is the living water which shall not run dry, running water from the spirit of God. Instead I let my springs overflow in the streets, my streams of water in the public squares. I should have let them be mine alone, never to be shared with strangers."
If you are married, rejoice in the spouse of your youth. May they satisfy you always, and may you ever be captivated by their love. Why be captivated, beloved, by an adulterer? Why embrace the bosom of another whom is not yours? Are not a man's ways are in full view of the LORD? Does God not examine all our paths and see our ways? Those things which we think are hidden, God sees them all.
Do not be like the adulterer, for their evil deeds will catch them in a snare, because the slavery and chains of their sin hold them fast. The end result will be tragic, they will die for lack of discipline, they lack judgment and will destroy themselves, led astray by their own great folly. They will take you down into the fiery pit forever.
When the blind lead the blind, will they not both fall into the ditch?
Think about it. Pray on it. Don't do it.
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Amen and Praise God!!
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