Proverbs 6:25

World English Bible (2000)

Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 9:30 : 30 When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-5 : 2 It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on. 3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. 5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child."
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
  • Song 4:9 : 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

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

  • Prov 6:26-27
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    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?

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

  • Prov 5:18-20
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    18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

    19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

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

  • Prov 7:5-6
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    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 5:8-9
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    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;

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'

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  • Prov 4:6
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    6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

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

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • Prov 4:25
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    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

  • Deut 21:11
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    11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

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

    22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

  • Prov 5:2-3
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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,

  • Prov 6:29
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    29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

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

  • Eccl 7:26
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    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.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

  • Prov 4:21
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    21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

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    30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

  • Deut 5:18
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    18 "Neither shall you commit adultery.

  • Prov 23:26-27
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    26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

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

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    14 "You shall not commit adultery.

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

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    3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

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    5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

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    6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

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

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    9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

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