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Proverbs 6:24

Heeding [PRS] these commands and things that we have taught you will enable you to keep away from immoral women and from listening to the enticing words of an adulterous woman.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

In Context

23These commands and what we teach you will be like a lamp to light your path [MET]. When we rebuke you and correct/punish you, we will be showing you the road to having a good life.

25Even if such a woman is beautiful and has lovely eyes, do not desire to go with her. Do not let her persuade you to go with her ◄with her eyes/by the way she looks at you►.

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:3What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,

Ecclesiastes 7:26One thing I learned was that ◄allowing a woman to seduce you/having sex with a woman to whom you are not married► is worse than dying. A woman who tries to seduce men is as dangerous as a trap [MET]. If you allow her to put her arms around you, it will be as though she will be fastening you with chains. Women like that will capture sinful men, but men who please God will escape from such women.

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 →

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