Proverbs 5:15
Modern Translations
New International Version
Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

New Living Translation
Drink water from your own well— share your love only with your wife.

English Standard Version
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

Berean Study Bible
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

New American Standard Bible
Drink water from your own cistern, And fresh water from your own well.

NASB 1995
Drink water from your own cistern And fresh water from your own well.

NASB 1977
Drink water from your own cistern, And fresh water from your own well.

Amplified Bible
Drink water from your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship] And fresh running water from your own well.

Christian Standard Bible
Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.

Contemporary English Version
You should be faithful to your wife, just as you take water from your own well.

Good News Translation
Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Drink water out of your own cistern and running water from your own well.

International Standard Version
Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.

NET Bible
Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

New King James Version
Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well.

King James 2000 Bible
Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

New Heart English Bible
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

World English Bible
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

American King James Version
Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

American Standard Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

A Faithful Version
Drink waters out of your own cistern and running waters out of your own well.

Darby Bible Translation
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

English Revised Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Webster's Bible Translation
Drink waters out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Drinke of the water of thyne owne well, and of the riuers that runne out of thyne owne spring.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Drinke of the water of thine owne well, and of the ryuers that runne out of thine owne spriges.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Drink waters out of your own cistern, "" Even flowing ones out of your own well.

Young's Literal Translation
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

Smith's Literal Translation
Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Drink waters from your well and running waters from your spring,

Lamsa Bible
Drink water out of your own well, and running water from your own spring.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells.
















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