Proverbs 7:25
Do not let your heart turn to her ways, || Do not wander in her paths,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
In Context
24And now, you sons, listen to me, || And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
26For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, || And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
Cross References
Psalms 119:176I wandered as a lost sheep, [so] seek Your servant, || For I have not forgotten Your precepts!
Proverbs 5:8Keep your way far from off her, || And do not come near to the opening of her house,
Proverbs 6:25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, || And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
Proverbs 23:31Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.
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 7:25-27
The Seduction of a Youth. 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. We have here the application of the foregoing story: " Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers ( v. 24 ); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy." 1. "Take good… Read the whole commentary →