Proverbs 5:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:26 : 26 Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.
  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I consider my actions and follow your rules.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things; 13 he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;
  • Prov 7:10-21 : 10 Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent. 11 (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home– 12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.) 13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him, 14 “I have meat from my peace offerings at home; today I have fulfilled my vows! 15 That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you! 16 I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures. 19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance. 20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month.” 21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.
  • Prov 11:19 : 19 True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders, 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 5:3-5
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    3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

    4but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

    5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

    26for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many.

    27Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 2:15-20
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    15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

    16to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;

    17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.

    18For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.

    19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.

    20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 5:7-9
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    7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

    8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

    9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

  • Prov 4:26
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    26Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

  • Prov 3:17
    76%

    17Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

  • Prov 5:20-21
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    20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

    21For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

    25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

    26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

  • Prov 4:12-15
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    12When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.

    13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

    14Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.

    15Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

  • Prov 7:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11(She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home–

    12at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

  • Prov 4:6
    74%

    6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

  • Prov 15:24
    73%

    24The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 7:5
    73%

    5so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.

  • Job 38:20
    73%

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

  • Prov 8:2
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    2At the top of the prominent places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she has taken her stand;

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

  • Job 22:15
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    15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

  • Prov 9:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way.

    16“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding she has said,

  • Ps 17:5
    72%

    5I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.

  • Prov 3:23
    72%

    23Then you will walk on your way with security, and you will not stumble.

  • Prov 7:8
    72%

    8He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

  • Prov 10:9
    72%

    9The one who conducts himself in integrity will live securely, but the one who behaves perversely will be found out.

  • Prov 20:24
    72%

    24The steps of a person are ordained by the LORD– so how can anyone understand his own way?

  • Prov 7:22
    72%

    22Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

  • Prov 23:27
    71%

    27for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

  • Jer 2:33
    71%

    33“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!