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Proverbs 5:16-23 Good News Bible (GNB)

16. Children that you have by other women will do you no good.

17. Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.

18. So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married —

19. pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.

20. Why should you give your love to another woman, my son? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?

21. The Lord sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.

22. The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

23. They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.