Proverbs 6:24

World English Bible (2000)

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:5-6
    2 verses
    89%

    5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

    17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

  • Prov 6:25-27
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    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

    27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

  • 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Prov 5:2-4
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    2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

    3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

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

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

    6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

    7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

    8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

    9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

  • 24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Prov 2:11-12
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    11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

    12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

  • 25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

  • 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

  • 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

  • 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

  • 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

  • 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

  • 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • 5 Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

  • Prov 6:20-23
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    20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

    21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

    22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

    23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

  • Prov 4:13-15
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    13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

    14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

    15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

  • 3 Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

  • 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

  • 32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • 25 lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

  • 16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

  • 20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • 20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • 10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • 15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

  • 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

  • 18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

  • 2 You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

  • 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

  • 13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!