Proverbs 5:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Proverbs 5:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The teacher seeks to counteract the evils of mere sensual passion chiefly by setting forth the true blessedness of which it is the counterfeit. The true wife is as a fountain of refreshment, where...
Proverbs 5:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Drink waters out of (h) thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. (h) He teaches us sobriety exhorting us to live of our own labours and to be beneficial to the godly who want.
Proverbs 5:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:1-9 ; Proverbs 5:10-19 ; Proverbs 5:20-23 . Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3 . The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the desc...
Proverbs 5:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Drink waters out of thine own cistern - Be satisfied with thy own wife; and let the wife see that she reverence her hu...
Proverbs 5:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Drink waters out of thine own cistern— The allegory here begun is carried on through several verses. It has been differently understood; but the interpretation which seems most generally followed,...
Proverbs 5:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. As all desire resembles thirs...
Proverbs 5:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, o...
Proverbs 5:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(15-20) Drink waters out of thine own cistern ... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords a...
Proverbs 5:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his...
Proverbs 5:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural...
Proverbs 5:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strang...
Proverbs 5:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Drink waters out of thine own cistern ,.... Arguments being used to dissuade from conversation with an adulterous woman, taken from the disgrace, diseases, poverty, and distress of mind on reflectio...
Proverbs 5:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Ver. 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern. ] After other preservatives from fornication, as not to think of or...
Proverbs 5:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Drink waters out of thine own cistern “The allegory here begun is carried on through several verses. It has been differently understood; but the interpretation which seems most generally followed,...
Proverbs 5:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Le...
Proverbs 5:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This metaphor contained here, and Proverbs 5:16-18 , is to be understood either, 1. Of the free and lawful use of a man's estate, both for his own comfort, and for the good of others. Or rather,...
Proverbs 5:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Solomon Calls On His Son To Be Faithful To His True Wife, And To Obtain His Sexual Enjoyments From Her ( Proverbs 5:15-20 ). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' ( Proverbs 5:20 ) the...
Proverbs 5:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound....
Proverbs 5:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woma...
Proverbs 5:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Spiritual resources I. Man has independent spiritual resources. 1. He has independent sources of thought. Eve...
Proverbs 5:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced...
Proverbs 5:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well, seeking the satisfaction of permitted desire and intercourse only and alone within the bounds of holy wedlock.
Proverbs 5:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ; Hebrews 13:4 ; Proverbs 5:18 ; Proverbs 5:19
Proverbs 5:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Drink — Content thyself with those delights which God alloweth thee in the sober use of the marriage — bed.

Proverbs 5:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 5:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 5:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 5:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 5:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 5:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 5:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 5:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 5:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 5:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes