Proverbs 5:17
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
In context
14 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 5:17 in the KJV
Let them be only thine own, And not strangers' with thee.
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 5:17 in the NIV
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.