September 9: Proverbs 7–8; Psalm 66; John 6
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 />
