Proverbs 5:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:26 : 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.
  • Ps 119:59 : 59 ¶ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 ¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
  • Prov 7:10-21 : 10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, 14 [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed. 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
  • Prov 11:19 : 19 ¶ As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 5:3-5
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    3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:

    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

    5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    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.

  • Prov 2:15-20
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    82%

    15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

    16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

    17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

    18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

    19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

    20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 5:7-9
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    7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

    8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

    9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • Prov 4:26
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    26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

  • Prov 3:17
    76%

    17 Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Prov 5:20-21
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    20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

    21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 4:12-15
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    12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

    13 Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.

    14 ¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].

    15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Prov 7:11-12
    2 verses
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    11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

    12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • Prov 4:6
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    6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24 ¶ The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • Prov 7:5
    73%

    5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

  • Job 38:20
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    20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths [to] the house thereof?

  • Prov 22:5
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    5 ¶ Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

  • Prov 8:2
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    2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

  • Job 22:15
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    15 ¶ Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

  • Prov 9:15-16
    2 verses
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    15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:

    16 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

  • Ps 17:5
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    5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.

  • Prov 3:23
    72%

    23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

  • Prov 7:8
    72%

    8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

  • Prov 10:9
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    9 ¶ He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24 ¶ Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

  • Prov 7:22
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    22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  • Prov 23:27
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    27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

  • Jer 2:33
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    33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.