Proverbs 5:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:15 : 15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
  • Prov 7:25 : 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
  • Matt 6:13 : 13 And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
  • Prov 6:27-28 : 27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? 28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:25
    82%

    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 5:9
    81%

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

  • Prov 5:3-7
    5 verses
    81%

    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;

    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

    7Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

  • Prov 7:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

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

    6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

  • Prov 4:14-15
    2 verses
    79%

    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 7:8
    79%

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

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    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 2:16-20
    5 verses
    77%

    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 5:20
    76%

    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 7:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    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 1:15
    76%

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

  • Prov 7:27
    76%

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

  • Prov 4:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

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

  • Prov 9:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

    15Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

  • Prov 6:29
    74%

    29So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

  • Mic 7:5
    74%

    5Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

  • Prov 21:9
    73%

    9It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 4:24
    73%

    24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Ezek 16:32
    73%

    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 25:17
    72%

    17Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

  • Prov 5:17-18
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    72%

    17Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • Prov 8:3
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    3Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

  • 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 31:3
    72%

    3Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

  • Prov 22:14
    72%

    14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Prov 1:10
    72%

    10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

  • Prov 23:27
    72%

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

  • Prov 7:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

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

  • Prov 4:27
    71%

    27Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

  • Prov 9:4
    71%

    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 25:24
    71%

    24It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • Job 31:9
    71%

    9If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

  • Lev 18:19
    71%

    19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.