Wayward Wife

Proverbs 23:20-27 – Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags. Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy the truth and do not sell it—wisdom, instruction and insight as well. The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him. May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful! My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways, for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

Proverbs 27:11 – Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.

Proverbs 2:16 – Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.

Proverbs 5:20 – Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

Application:

• ·         Wise children serve as a powerful testimony that the parents who have shaped them have shown themselves to be people of worth.
• ·         The Hebrew for adulterous woman and wayward woman occurs again. “Wayward woman/wife” is parallel to “neighbor’s wife and “adulterous woman”.
• ·         In light of the sheer joy found within the bonds of marriage and the “serious trouble” outside it, why commit adultery?

All Scripture verses taken from NIV