Holy Scripture
Proverbs 5:22
A church father on this verse
“Clothed as you are in the rotten garments of your offenses and "held fast in the meshes of your own sins," listen to the prophet's voice saying, "Wash yourselves clean! Put away the misdeeds of your souls from before my eyes," that the angelic choir may chant over you: "Happy [are] they whose faults are taken away, wh…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
22Iniquities ensnare a man, And every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
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20Be not intimate with a strange woman, Neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.
21For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, And he looks on all his paths.
— Proverbs 5:22 —
23Such a man dies with the uninstructed; And he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, And has perished through folly.