Devine Scripture

Proverbs 6:24

Proverbs chapter 6 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

Context

v.23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

v.24This passage

v.25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 5:3

    For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

  • Proverbs 7:5

    That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

  • Proverbs 2:16

    To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

  • Ecclesiastes 7:26

    And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.