Proverbs 22:25

For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

In Context

24Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

26Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

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Cross References

Proverbs 4:14Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:25-26

Prudential Maxims. 24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. Here is, 1. A good caution against being intimate with a passionate man. It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to. Thought we… Read the whole commentary →

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