Proverbs 7:25
Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that. Do not go where she goes.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
In Context
24My son, listen to what I say; pay careful attention to my words.
26She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
Cross References
Psalms 119:176I have wandered away from you like [SIM] a sheep that has become lost; search for me, because I have not forgotten ◄your commands/what you have commanded us►.
Proverbs 5:8Run away from immoral women! Do not go near the doors of their houses!
Proverbs 6:25Even 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►.
Proverbs 23:31Do not look with pleasure at red wine that looks nice, and which sparkles when it is poured out into cups, and which tastes good as you drink it,
Matthew 5:28But what I say to you is this: If a man only looks at a woman desiring to have sex with her, God considers that his doing that [MET] is sin.
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 →