3. Sexual Sin Is Ultimately Deadly (Prov. 7)

For the third time, Solomon calls the young person back to the Word of God (vv. 1-5), because keeping God’s commandments is a matter of life or death. The adulteress lives on a dead-end street: “Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death” (v. 27).

The familiar phrase “apple of your eye” (v. 2 nkjv) refers to the pupil of the eye, which the ancients thought was a sphere like an apple. We protect our eyes because they’re valuable to us, and so should we honor and protect God’s Word by obeying it. Sexual sin often begins with undisciplined eyes and hands (Matt. 5:27-30), but the heart of the problem is … the heart (Prov. 7:2-3). If we love God’s wisdom as we love those in our family, we wouldn’t want to visit the house of the harlot.

This chapter vividly describes a naive young man who falls into the trap of the adulteress. Note the steps that lead to his destruction.