Proverbs 6:25
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, || And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
In Context
24To preserve you from an evil woman, || From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
26For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, || And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:2And it comes to pass, at evening-time, that David rises from off his bed, and walks up and down on the roof of the king’s house, and sees a woman bathing from the roof, and the woman [is] of very good appearance,
2 Kings 9:30And Jehu comes to Jezreel, and Jezebel has heard, and puts her eyes in paint and beautifies her head, and looks out through the window.
Song of Solomon 4:9You have emboldened me, my sister-spouse, || Emboldened me with one of your eyes, || With one chain of your neck.
Matthew 5:28but I say to you that everyone who is looking on a woman to desire her, already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →