September 9: Proverbs 7–8; 2 Timothy 1:1–7; Psalm 66; Proverbs 23:6–8

Old Testament: Proverbs 7–8 Proverbs 7–8 (Listen) Warning Against the Adulteress 7   My son, keep my words<br />    and treasure up my commandments with you;<br />2   keep my commandments and live;<br />    keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;<br />3   bind them on your fingers;<br />    write them on the tablet of your heart.<br />4   Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”<br />    and call insight your intimate friend,<br />5   to keep you from the forbidden1 woman,<br />    from the adulteress2 with her smooth words.<br /> 6   For at the window of my house<br />    I have looked out through my lattice,<br />7   and I have seen among the simple,<br />    I have perceived among the youths,<br />    a young man lacking sense,<br />8   passing along the street near her corner,<br />    taking the road to her house<br />9   in the twilight, in the evening,<br />