Proverbs 5:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:26 : 26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; 13 Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
  • Prov 7:10-21 : 10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart; 11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house. 12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road. 13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: 14 I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected. 15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you. 16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; 17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. 18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights. 19 For the master of the house is away on a long journey: 20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon. 21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
  • Prov 11:19 : 19 So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 5:3-5
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    3For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

    5Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 2:15-20
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    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

    18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

    19Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

    20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 5:7-9
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    7Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • Prov 4:26
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    26Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

  • Prov 3:17
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    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Prov 5:20-21
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    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

    21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Prov 4:12-15
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    12When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

    13Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

    14Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

    15Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

  • Prov 7:11-12
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    11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Job 38:20
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    20So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

  • Prov 8:2
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    2At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

  • Job 22:15
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    15Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • Prov 9:15-16
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    15Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

    16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Ps 17:5
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    5I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • Prov 3:23
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    23Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

  • Prov 7:22
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    22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

  • Jer 2:33
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    33With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.