Proverbs 7:1-5

 

Rachel Workman: My son, keep my words
    and store up my commands within you. Imagine the world we would be living in if everyone did this.
² Keep my commands and you will live;
    guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. Every day we are faced with decisions. But this decision is the decision that decides if we live or die.
³ Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.
⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and to insight, “You are my relative.”
⁵ They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words. 

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John Burnett:  7 My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commandments and live,
And my [a]teaching as the [b]apple of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.  We are to read and memorize God's Word.  This is one of the areas I struggle with. 
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend;  God opens our eyes to the scriptures and provides us understanding.  We are to consider this understanding as our closest friend.
5 That they may keep you from an [c]adulteress,
From the foreigner who [d]flatters with her words.  In today's world, pornography is the adultress that flatters with her words and is the cheese that traps many men into a life of sin.

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Monday’s reading for Galatians 1:1-5

1 This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.

² All the brothers and sisters^[a] here join me in sending this letter to the churches of Galatia.

³ May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ^[b] give you grace and peace. ⁴ Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live. ⁵ All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.