Proverbs 2:17
“Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.”
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
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“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
“For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.”
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?”
“Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.”