Proverbs 7:25 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 7:25

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

KJV

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ASV

Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

WEB

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

YLT

Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

DBT

Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:

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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12 verses on the floor

Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
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 9:15
To call passengers who go right on their ways:

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

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3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

If thou goest in her paths, in any of the paths that lead to this sin, thou goest astray, thou art out of the right way, the safe way; therefore take heed, go not astray, lest thou wander endlessly." 2. "Take fair warning when it is given you." (1.) "Look back, and see what mischief this sin has done.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 7:25MAT 5:28 JAS 1:14-15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 7:25ISA 53:6 1PE 2:25
PRO 7:25ISA 53:6 1PE 3:18
PRO 7:25ISA 53:6 PSA 119:176
PRO 7:25MAT 5:28 1JN 2:16
PRO 7:25MAT 5:28 PRO 6:25
PRO 7:25ISA 53:6 ISA 55:7
PRO 7:25ISA 53:6 ROM 4:25

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