Proverbs 6:25 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 6:25

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

YLT

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

DBT

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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20 verses on the floor

Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Proverbs 31:30
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Psalms 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
James 1:14–15
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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We are here dissuaded from sin very much by arguments borrowed from our secular interests, for it is not only represented as damning in the other world, but as impoverishing in this.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Her looks are arrows and fiery darts; they wound, they kill, in another sense than what lovers mean; they call it a pleasing captivity, but it is a destroying one, it is worse than Egyptian slavery." 2. Divers arguments Solomon here urges to enforce this caution against the sin of whoredom.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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