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Teaching Proverbs 5:15–19 to Your Family | Drink From Your Own Well — Key Takeaways

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Teaching Proverbs 5:15–19 to Your Family | Drink From Your Own Well

Be Courageous Ministry10mNov 4, 2026

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Teach Proverbs 5:15–19 to children of all ages, adapting language (e.g., "bad pictures" for younger kids) to cover sexual purity, pornography, modesty, and future marriage.

Key takeaways

Proverbs 5:15-19 uses well/spring imagery to teach marital faithfulness

Proverbs 5:15-19 uses well/spring imagery to teach marital faithfulness

  • Water metaphors (cistern, spring, fountain) poetically represent marital intimacy and exclusivity.
  • The passage contrasts drinking from one's own well versus scattering springs in the streets — a warning against promiscuity.

Frame sexual purity positively: focus on the right thing, not just avoiding the wrong

Frame sexual purity positively: focus on the right thing, not just avoiding the wrong

  • "When you desire what's right, you stop desiring what's wrong" — shift kids toward virtuous attraction, not shame-based avoidance.
  • Teaching children to focus on God's path and their future spouse builds a defense without dwelling on sin.

Introduce pornography warning as "bad pictures" for young kids; reserve the term for older

Introduce pornography warning as "bad pictures" for young kids; reserve the term for older

  • For ages 4-7: call it "bad pictures" — people being ungodly/intimate; warn never to look.
  • For older kids: explain addiction risks exceeding cocaine and marriage-destroying effects, urging total avoidance.

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In this video

  1. 1mIntroduction and Teaching Scripture
  2. 1mSponsor: Previnex Brain Health
  3. 2mTeaching Verses 15-17: Purity and Pornography
  4. 5mTeaching Verses 18-19: Modesty and Future Marriage
  5. 7mFocus on Right Desires and Water Metaphor
  6. 8mSponsor: Tim Harris Episode Highlights

“When you desire what's right, you stop desiring what's wrong.”

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