Proverbs 6:24
to keep you continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
In Context
23For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:
Cross References
Proverbs 5:3for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:
Ecclesiastes 7:26I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.
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 →