箴言8:1-11

8:1 智慧豈不呼叫？聰明豈不發聲？
8:2 她在道旁高處的頂上，在十字路口站立，
8:3 在城門旁，在城門口，在城門洞，大聲說：
8:4 眾人哪，我呼叫你們，我向世人發聲。
8:5 說：愚蒙人哪，你們要會悟靈明；愚昧人哪，你們當心裡明白。
8:6 你們當聽，因我要說極美的話；我張嘴要論正直的事。
8:7 我的口要發出真理；我的嘴憎惡邪惡。
8:8 我口中的言語都是公義，並無彎曲乖僻。
8:9 有聰明的，以為明顯，得知識的，以為正直。
8:10 你們當受我的教訓，不受白銀；寧得知識，勝過黃金。
8:11 因為智慧比珍珠（或譯：紅寶石）更美；一切可喜愛的都不足與比較。

Does not wisdom call out?
    Does not understanding raise her voice?
² At the highest point along the way,
    where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
³ beside the gate leading into the city,
    at the entrance, she cries aloud:
⁴ “To you, O people, I call out;
    I raise my voice to all mankind.
⁵ You who are simple, gain prudence;
    you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.^[a]
6 Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;
    I open my lips to speak what is right.
⁷ My mouth speaks what is true,
    for my lips detest wickedness.
⁸ All the words of my mouth are just;
    none of them is crooked or perverse.
⁹ To the discerning all of them are right;
    they are upright to those who have found knowledge.
¹⁰ Choose my instruction instead of silver,
    knowledge rather than choice gold,
¹¹ for wisdom is more precious than rubies,
    and nothing you desire can compare with her.

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    人受罪性的影響，以至於失去喜愛智慧的心。這是因為人沒有敬畏上帝，心就被罪所蒙蔽，就不再靈敏。也因為如此，所以對智慧的呼喚，人沒有去注意，甚至沒有聽從。

    作者在此更是補充說明智慧的價值：「你們當受我的教訓，不受白銀；寧得知識，勝過黃金。因為智慧比珍珠更美；一切可喜愛的都不足與比較。」

    既然如此，我們就要用心追求智慧，使我們享受上帝所要賜給我們的福份。而這樣的福分，都在基督裡！怪不得保羅視基督為至寶，你是不是也看重基督勝過萬有呢？

箴言7:6-27

7:6 我曾在我房屋的窗戶內，從我窗欞之間往外觀看：
7:7 見愚蒙人內，少年人中，分明有一個無知的少年人，
7:8 從街上經過，走近淫婦的巷口，直往通她家的路去，
7:9 在黃昏，或晚上，或半夜，或黑暗之中。
7:10 看哪，有一個婦人來迎接他，是妓女的打扮，有詭詐的心思。
7:11 這婦人喧嚷，不守約束，在家裡停不住腳，
7:12 有時在街市上，有時在寬闊處，或在各巷口蹲伏，
7:13 拉住那少年人，與他親嘴，臉無羞恥對他說：
7:14 平安祭在我這裡，今日才還了我所許的願。
7:15 因此，我出來迎接你，懇切求見你的面，恰巧遇見了你。
7:16 我已經用繡花毯子和埃及線織的花紋布鋪了我的床。
7:17 我又用沒藥、沉香、桂皮薰了我的榻。
7:18 你來，我們可以飽享愛情，直到早晨；我們可以彼此親愛歡樂。
7:19 因為我丈夫不在家，出門行遠路；
7:20 他手拿銀囊，必到月望才回家。
7:21 淫婦用許多巧言誘他隨從，用諂媚的嘴逼他同行。
7:22 少年人立刻跟隨她，好像牛往宰殺之地；又像愚昧人帶鎖鍊去受刑罰，
7:23 直等箭穿他的肝；如同雀鳥急入網羅，卻不知是自喪己命。
7:24 眾子啊，現在要聽從我，留心聽我口中的話。
7:25 你的心不可偏向淫婦的道，不要入她的迷途。
7:26 因為，被她傷害仆倒的不少；被她殺戮的而且甚多。
7:27 她的家是在陰間之路，下到死亡之宮。

⁶ At the window of my house
    I looked down through the lattice.
⁷ I saw among the simple,
    I noticed among the young men,
    a youth who had no sense.
⁸ He was going down the street near her corner,
    walking along in the direction of her house
⁹ at twilight, as the day was fading,
    as the dark of night set in.

¹⁰ Then out came a woman to meet him,
    dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
¹¹ (She is unruly and defiant,
    her feet never stay at home;
¹² now in the street, now in the squares,
    at every corner she lurks.)
¹³ She took hold of him and kissed him
    and with a brazen face she said:

¹⁴ “Today I fulfilled my vows,
    and I have food from my fellowship offering at home.
¹⁵ So I came out to meet you;
    I looked for you and have found you!
¹⁶ I have covered my bed
    with colored linens from Egypt.
¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed
    with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
¹⁸ Come, let’s drink deeply of love till morning;
    let’s enjoy ourselves with love!
¹⁹ My husband is not at home;
    he has gone on a long journey.
²⁰ He took his purse filled with money
    and will not be home till full moon.”

²¹ With persuasive words she led him astray;
    she seduced him with her smooth talk.
²² All at once he followed her
    like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer^[a] stepping into a noose^[b]
23     till an arrow pierces his liver,
like a bird darting into a snare,
    little knowing it will cost him his life.

²⁴ Now then, my sons, listen to me;
    pay attention to what I say.
²⁵ Do not let your heart turn to her ways
    or stray into her paths.
²⁶ Many are the victims she has brought down;
    her slain are a mighty throng.
²⁷ Her house is a highway to the grave,
    leading down to the chambers of death.

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    邪惡的女人為了控制男人，最常用的工具就是「性」。偏偏男人常常喜歡美色，看到漂亮的女人就被吸引過去。所以，女人常常利用美色來引誘男人，讓她們予取予求，占盡任何便宜。這是我們在每個時代、每個環境都可以看見的事實。怪不的有言說：「英雄難過美人關！」

    因此男子需要在這樣的事上被提醒、被告誡，才不會陷入這樣的迷惑，傷害自己的生命和家庭。因為在這樣的事上跌倒的人，通常是身敗名裂。而偏偏越是開放或進步的社會，這樣的事越是造成男子更大的傷害，甚至是天天在上演呢！

    然而在信仰上也有許多這樣的「淫婦」，在其中所傳講的不是尊主為大，而是讓人豐盛、尊貴、榮耀、有自信，從來不提到人是犯罪和敗壞的事實，更不傳講人須要認罪悔改，使人誤以為信耶穌就成為好人，就好像天使一般。

    所以，我們要不斷的提醒自己一生要榮耀上帝，以上帝為樂，尊主為大，高舉基督為王！

箴言7章

           箴言7:1-5      ,   箴言7:6-27    ,

箴言7:1-5

7:1 我兒，你要遵守我的言語，將我的命令存記在心。
7:2 遵守我的命令就得存活；保守我的法則（或譯：指教），好像保守眼中的瞳人，
7:3 繫在你指頭上，刻在你心版上。
7:4 對智慧說：你是我的姊妹，稱呼聰明為你的親人，
7:5 她就保你遠離淫婦，遠離說諂媚話的外女。

My son, keep my words
    and store up my commands within you.
² Keep my commands and you will live;
    guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
³ Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.
⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and to insight, “You are my relative.”
⁵ They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

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    通姦的行為產生通常是受到引誘，因為人是受到情慾影響至深，甚至於被情慾來駕馭。之所以會有這種扭曲的現象，是因為罪的緣故，而罪就藉由情慾來控制人，正如雅各書1章14-15節：「但各人被試探，乃是被自己的私慾牽引誘惑的。私慾既懷了胎，就生出罪來；罪既長成，就生出死來。」

    如何能勝過情慾的轄制，就是要靠上帝的話語，並且堅守聖經的命令。而能夠如此，不是靠自己的持守，而是要靠聖靈的工作。因為聖靈將耶穌基督復活的大能展現在我們的生命中，使我們脫離罪與死，賜給我們真正的智慧，使我們可以勝過罪藉由情慾來轄制我們。

    而聖靈的工作不僅使我們得重生，並且將上帝的律法刻在我們的新版上，使我們從心裡來遵行上帝的律法，尊上帝為大！

箴言6:20-35

6:20 我兒，要謹守你父親的誡命；不可離棄你母親的法則（或譯：指教），
6:21 要常繫在你心上，掛在你項上。
6:22 你行走，它必引導你；你躺臥，它必保守你；你睡醒，它必與你談論。
6:23 因為誡命是燈，法則（或譯：指教）是光，訓誨的責備是生命的道，
6:24 能保你遠離惡婦，遠離外女諂媚的舌頭。
6:25 你心中不要戀慕她的美色，也不要被她眼皮勾引。
6:26 因為，妓女能使人只剩一塊餅；淫婦獵取人寶貴的生命。
6:27 人若懷裡搋火，衣服豈能不燒呢？
6:28 人若在火炭上走，腳豈能不燙呢？
6:29 親近鄰舍之妻的，也是如此；凡挨近她的，不免受罰。
6:30 賊因飢餓偷竊充飢，人不藐視他，
6:31 若被找著，他必賠還七倍，必將家中所有的盡都償還。
6:32 與婦人行淫的，便是無知；行這事的，必喪掉生命。
6:33 他必受傷損，必被凌辱；他的羞恥不得塗抹。
6:34 因為人的嫉恨成了烈怒，報仇的時候決不留情。
6:35 甚麼贖價，他都不顧；你雖送許多禮物，他也不肯幹休。

²⁰ My son, keep your father’s command
    and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
²¹ Bind them always on your heart;
    fasten them around your neck.
²² When you walk, they will guide you;
    when you sleep, they will watch over you;
    when you awake, they will speak to you.
²³ For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,
²⁴ keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

²⁶ For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
²⁷ Can a man scoop fire into his lap
    without his clothes being burned?
²⁸ Can a man walk on hot coals
    without his feet being scorched?
²⁹ So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife;
    no one who touches her will go unpunished.

³⁰ People do not despise a thief if he steals
    to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
³¹ Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
    though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
³² But a man who commits adultery has no sense;
    whoever does so destroys himself.
³³ Blows and disgrace are his lot,
    and his shame will never be wiped away.

³⁴ For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
    and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
³⁵ He will not accept any compensation;
    he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.

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    通姦的行為是從人的「性慾」產生的，是對婚姻制度有很大的殺傷力。不僅如此，人還會因為妒忌產生兇殺的事件。所以，人要躲避通姦的行為，避免一些被傷害得事情，好使自己不致得罪上帝和侵犯人。

    然而是出於情慾的事，就像內賊一樣，是無法防範的，必須要有強而有力的提醒，那就是來自父親和母親的教導和提醒，這是上帝賦予我們重要的良心來源。所以，我們要感謝上帝賜下這樣的管道，除了我們受父母照顧外，我們也要協助我們的兒女。因為通姦的行為，常常發生於親子關係出了問題的人。

    願上帝幫助我們，讓每個基督徒的家庭，通過家庭教育來防治通姦的行為，使婚姻能保持穩固，使社會安定，減少兇殺的事情。