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New Living Translation
Proverbs 5:17
You should reserve it for yourselves. Never share it with strangers.
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Christian Standard Bible®
They should be for you aloneand not for you to share with strangers.
They should be for you aloneand not for you to share with strangers.
Hebrew Names Version
Let them be for yourself alone, Not for strangers with you.
Let them be for yourself alone, Not for strangers with you.
King James Version
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
English Standard Version
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
New Century Version
These things are yours alone and shouldn't be shared with strangers.
These things are yours alone and shouldn't be shared with strangers.
New English Translation
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
Amplified Bible
[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone, And not the children of strangers with you.
[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone, And not the children of strangers with you.
New American Standard Bible
Let them be yours alone, And not for strangers with you.
Let them be yours alone, And not for strangers with you.
World English Bible
Let them be for yourself alone, Not for strangers with you.
Let them be for yourself alone, Not for strangers with you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let them be for you alone,And not for strangers with you.
Let them be for you alone,And not for strangers with you.
Berean Standard Bible
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Contemporary English Version
Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.
Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.
Complete Jewish Bible
but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.
but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.
Darby Translation
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
Keep it for yourself, and don't share it with strangers.
Keep it for yourself, and don't share it with strangers.
George Lamsa Translation
Let it be for yourself alone, let not strangers be partners with you.
Let it be for yourself alone, let not strangers be partners with you.
Good News Translation
Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.
Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.
Lexham English Bible
May they be yours alone, and not for strangers who are with you.
May they be yours alone, and not for strangers who are with you.
Literal Translation
Let them be only your own, and not to strangers with you;
Let them be only your own, and not to strangers with you;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But let them be only thine owne, & not straungers with the.
But let them be only thine owne, & not straungers with the.
American Standard Version
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
Bible in Basic English
Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
King James Version (1611)
Let them be onely thine owne, and not strangers with thee.
Let them be onely thine owne, and not strangers with thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But let them be onlye thyne owne, and not straungers with thee.
But let them be onlye thyne owne, and not straungers with thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.
Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.
English Revised Version
Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.
Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Haue thou aloone `tho watris; and aliens be not thi parceneris.
Haue thou aloone `tho watris; and aliens be not thi parceneris.
Update Bible Version
Let them be for yourself alone, And not for strangers with you.
Let them be for yourself alone, And not for strangers with you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let them be only thy own, and not for strangers with thee.
Let them be only thy own, and not for strangers with thee.
New King James Version
Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.
Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.
New Life Bible
Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.
Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.
New Revised Standard
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.
Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
Revised Standard Version
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
Young's Literal Translation
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
THE MESSAGE
Your spring water is for you and you only, not to be passed around among strangers. Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man! Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose— don't ever quit taking delight in her body. Never take her love for granted! Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a whore? for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?
Your spring water is for you and you only, not to be passed around among strangers. Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man! Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose— don't ever quit taking delight in her body. Never take her love for granted! Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a whore? for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let them be yours alone And not for strangers with you.
Let them be yours alone And not for strangers with you.
Contextual Overview
15 Drink water from your own well— share your love only with your wife. 16 Why spill the water of your springs in the streets, having sex with just anyone? 17 You should reserve it for yourselves. Never share it with strangers. 18 Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 She is a loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love. 20 Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman, or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman? 21 For the Lord sees clearly what a man does, examining every path he takes. 22 An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him. 23 He will die for lack of self-control; he will be lost because of his great foolishness.
Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Or "they shall be thine own" u, as the Targum; meaning not the cistern, the well, or the wife, but the fountains and rivers, or the children; by a man's cleaving to his own wife, who is a chaste and virtuous woman, he is satisfied that the children he has by her are his own, and not another's; whereas if he has to do with a common harlot, it is uncertain whose children they are, she prostituting herself to many: it may be applied to the peculiar possession and steadfast retention of the truths of the Gospel, in opposition to all divers and strange doctrines propagated by others; see Revelation 2:25.
u יהיו לך "erunt tui", Mercerus, Cocceius; "erunt tibi", Baynus; "existent tibi", Schultens.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 5:17. Let them be only thine own — The off-spring of a legitimate connection; a bastard brood, however numerous, is no credit to any man.
