Proverbs 5:8
Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
In Context
7Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.
9Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:15Take flight from it. Do not pass close to it. Turn away and abandon it.
Proverbs 7:8who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house.
Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →