Proverbs 5:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

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  • Prov 4:26 : 26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 You will show me the path of life: in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I considered my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his paths.
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth. 13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
  • Prov 7:10-21 : 10 And it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. 11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home: 12 Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner. 13 So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him, 14 I have peace offerings with me; today I have paid my vows. 15 So I came out to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you. 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 delight ourselves with love. 19 For the man is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; 20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the appointed day. 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she prevailed over him.
  • Prov 11:19 : 19 As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wrong.
  • 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 did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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

    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged 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 your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

    26 For she has cast down many wounded; indeed, 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
    6 verses
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    15 Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

    16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

    17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

    18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.

    19 None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.

    20 That you may 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 children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

    8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

    9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

  • 26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

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

  • 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 5:20-21
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    75%

    20 And why will you, 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 ponders all his paths.

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

    25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

    26 For by means of a harlot 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 you walk, your steps will not be hindered; and when you run, you will not stumble.

    13 Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.

    14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

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

  • Prov 7:11-12
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    11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:

    12 Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

  • 6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • 24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • 5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • 20 That you may take it to its boundary, and that you may discern the paths to its home?

  • 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.

  • 2 She stands on the top of high places, by the way where the paths meet.

  • 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

  • 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.

  • 25 Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

  • 15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

  • Prov 9:15-16
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    15 To call those who pass by who go straight on their ways:

    16 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • 5 Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

  • 23 Then you will walk in your way safely, and your foot will not stumble.

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

  • 9 He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • 24 A man's steps are of the LORD; how then can a man understand his own way?

  • 22 He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  • 27 For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

  • 33 Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways.