Proverbs 6:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:16 : 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:5-6
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    5so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.

    6For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    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.

  • Prov 6:25-27
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    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.

    27Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

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

  • Prov 5:2-4
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    2in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

    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.

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

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

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.

    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,

  • 24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

  • Prov 2:11-12
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    11Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

    12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

  • 25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

  • 14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

  • 13Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

  • 21She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.

  • 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.

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

  • 33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

  • 5Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Even with the one who lies in your arms, do not share secrets!

  • Prov 6:20-23
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    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

    21Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

    22When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

    23For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

  • Prov 4:13-15
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    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.

  • 3Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

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

  • 32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

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

  • 16Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.

  • 20This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”

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

  • 10Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

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

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

  • 29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

  • 18For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

  • 2if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

  • 26She has opened her mouth with wisdom, with loving instruction on her tongue.

  • 13Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.