Proverbs 7:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:8 : 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
  • Prov 5:23 : 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Prov 23:31-33 : 31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men. 15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 5:5-9
    5 verses
    83%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    81%

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

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

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

  • Prov 7:26-27
    2 verses
    80%

    26 For 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.

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

  • Prov 2:15-20
    6 verses
    79%

    15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 1:15
    79%

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

  • Prov 7:5
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

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

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

  • Prov 4:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

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

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

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

  • Prov 3:17
    78%

    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 7:8
    77%

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

  • Prov 31:3
    76%

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

  • Prov 5:20
    76%

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

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Prov 23:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

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

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

    19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

  • Prov 7:24
    75%

    24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

  • Prov 1:10
    75%

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

  • Prov 7:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Eccl 7:26
    75%

    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.

  • Prov 9:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Prov 22:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 4:21
    74%

    21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Prov 4:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

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

  • Prov 23:33
    73%

    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Prov 9:4
    73%

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

  • Jer 2:33
    73%

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

  • Prov 8:2
    73%

    2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

  • Ps 17:5
    73%

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

  • Prov 22:5
    73%

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