Proverbs 7:25
Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
In Context
24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
26for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
Cross References
Psalms 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
Proverbs 5:8Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
Proverbs 6:25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Proverbs 23:31Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Matthew 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already 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 →