Proverbs 6:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And 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.

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  • Prov 7:5-6
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    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 2:16-17
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    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:

  • Prov 6:25-27
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    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.

    27May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?

  • Prov 5:20
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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?

  • Prov 5:2-4
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    2So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

    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;

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    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 5:6-9
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    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.

    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 4:24
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    24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Prov 2:11-12
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    11Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

    12Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

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

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

  • Prov 7:21
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    21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

  • 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.

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

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Mic 7:5
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    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 6:20-23
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    20My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

    21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

    22In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

    23For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    16Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

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    20This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

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

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

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

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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.

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    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.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

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    2You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

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    26Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.

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    13Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.