Proverbs 5:8

Run away from immoral women! Do not go near the doors of their houses!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

In Context

7So now, my sons, listen to me. ◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.

9If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation► and that woman’s husband will not act mercifully toward you; he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!

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Cross References

Proverbs 4:15Stay away from those roads; turn aside and walk on other roads;

Proverbs 7:8He crossed the street near the house of an immoral woman. He was walking along the path toward her house

Matthew 6:13Do not let us(exc) do wrong things when we(exc) are tempted {someone or something tempts us}, and rescue us (exc) when Satan the evil one tempts us to do evil things.”

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 →

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