My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
        incline your ear to my understanding,
    that you may keep discretion,
        and your lips may guard knowledge.
    For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,
        and her speech is smoother than oil,
    but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
        sharp as a two-edged sword.
    Her feet go down to death;
        her steps follow the path to Sheol;
    she does not ponder the path of life;
        her ways wander, and she does not know it.
    
    
    And now, O sons, listen to me,
        and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
    Keep your way far from her,
        and do not go near the door of her house,
    lest you give your honor to others
        and your years to the merciless,
    lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
        and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
    and at the end of your life you groan,
        when your flesh and body are consumed,
    and you say, “How I hated discipline,
        and my heart despised reproof!
    I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
        or incline my ear to my instructors.
    I am at the brink of utter ruin
        in the assembled congregation.”
    
    
    Drink water from your own cistern,
        flowing water from your own well.
    Should your springs be scattered abroad,
        streams of water in the streets?
    Let them be for yourself alone,
        and not for strangers with you.
    Let your fountain be blessed,
        and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
        a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
    Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
        be intoxicated always in her love.
    Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
        and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
    For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD,
        and he ponders all his paths.
    The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
        and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
    He dies for lack of discipline,
        and because of his great folly he is led astray.
    
    
        My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
        have given your pledge for a stranger,
    if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
        caught in the words of your mouth,
    then do this, my son, and save yourself,
        for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
        go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
    Give your eyes no sleep
        and your eyelids no slumber;
    save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
        like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
    
    
    Go to the ant, O sluggard;
        consider her ways, and be wise.
    Without having any chief,
        officer, or ruler,
    she prepares her bread in summer
        and gathers her food in harvest.
    How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
        When will you arise from your sleep?
    A little sleep, a little slumber,
        a little folding of the hands to rest,
    and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
        and want like an armed man.
    
    
    A worthless person, a wicked man,
        goes about with crooked speech,
    winks with his eyes, signals with his feet,
        points with his finger,
    with perverted heart devises evil,
        continually sowing discord;
    therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
        in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
    
    
    There are six things that the LORD hates,
        seven that are an abomination to him:
    haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
        and hands that shed innocent blood,
    a heart that devises wicked plans,
        feet that make haste to run to evil,
    a false witness who breathes out lies,
        and one who sows discord among brothers.
    
    
        My son, keep your father’s commandment,
        and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
    Bind them on your heart always;
        tie them around your neck.
    When you walk, they will lead you;
        when you lie down, they will watch over you;
        and when you awake, they will talk with you.
    For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
        and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
    to preserve you from the evil woman,
        from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
    Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
        and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
    for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,
        but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
    Can a man carry fire next to his chest
        and his clothes not be burned?
    Or can one walk on hot coals
        and his feet not be scorched?
    So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
        none who touches her will go unpunished.
    People do not despise a thief if he steals
        to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
    but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;
        he will give all the goods of his house.
    He who commits adultery lacks sense;
        he who does it destroys himself.
    He will get wounds and dishonor,
        and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
    For jealousy makes a man furious,
        and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
    He will accept no compensation;
        he will refuse though you multiply gifts. (ESV)

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.” And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach.

  Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported, “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.” Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to. And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

  And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

  When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them. But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while. And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men. For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered. So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice, and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus. (ESV)