Proverbs 6:24

Authorized King James Version (1611)

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 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.

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  • Prov 7:5-6
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    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

    6¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

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

  • Prov 6:25-27
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    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

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

    27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

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

  • Prov 5:2-4
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    2That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.

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

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

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

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

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

    7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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

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

  • 24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  • Prov 2:11-12
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    11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

    12To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;

  • 25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • 14¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • 13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

  • 21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

  • 26And 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.

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

  • 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • 5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

  • Prov 6:20-23
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    20¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

    21Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.

    22When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

    23For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:

  • Prov 4:13-15
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    13Take 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].

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

  • 3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

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

  • 32[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

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

  • 16¶ Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • 20Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

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

  • 10¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

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

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

  • 29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

  • 18For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

  • 2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

  • 26She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.

  • 13¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.