Proverbs 22:25

lest perhaps you learn his ways, and take up a stumbling block to your soul.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

24Do not be willing to be a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man,

26Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts.

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Cross References

Proverbs 4:14Do not delight in the paths of the impious, nor permit the way of evil-doers to please you.

1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.

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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