15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. …
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have preven…
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