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Proverbs 7:5

So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Chastity;   Flattery;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chastity;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Teacher;   Wisdom;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Harlot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adventuress;   Gestures;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Education;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She will keep you from a forbidden woman,a wayward woman with her flattering talk.
Hebrew Names Version
That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
King James Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
English Standard Version
to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
New Century Version
Wisdom and understanding will keep you away from adultery, away from the unfaithful wife and her pleasing words.
New English Translation
so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.
Amplified Bible
That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the foreigner [who does not observe God's laws and] who flatters with her [smooth] words.
New American Standard Bible
So that they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
World English Bible
That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Geneva Bible (1587)
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
Legacy Standard Bible
In order to keep you from the strange woman,From the foreign woman who flatters with her words.
Berean Standard Bible
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Contemporary English Version
They will protect you from the flattering words of someone else's wife.
Complete Jewish Bible
so that they can keep you from unknown women, from loose women with their seductive talk.
Darby Translation
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
Easy-to-Read Version
Wisdom will save you from that other woman, the other man's wife, who tempts you with such sweet words.
George Lamsa Translation
That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger that flatters with her words.
Good News Translation
They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive words.
Lexham English Bible
In order to guard yourself from an adulteress, from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.
Literal Translation
so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the alien with her flattering words.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that she maye kepe ye fro ye strauge woma, & fro ye harlot which geueth swete wordes.
American Standard Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.
King James Version (1611)
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That they may kepe thee from the straunge woman, and from the forraine woman which geueth sweete wordes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.
English Revised Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That it kepe thee fro a straunge womman; and fro an alien womman, that makith hir wordis swete.
Update Bible Version
That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flatters with her words.
Webster's Bible Translation
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
New King James Version
That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words.
New Living Translation
Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.
New Life Bible
They will keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger with her smooth words.
New Revised Standard
that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
Revised Standard Version
to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.
Young's Literal Translation
To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Contextual Overview

1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you. 2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes; 3 Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend: 5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 6:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:8 - refused Genesis 39:10 - as she spake 1 Kings 11:1 - loved Proverbs 5:20 - with Proverbs 7:21 - With her Proverbs 20:16 - a strange Proverbs 22:14 - mouth Proverbs 26:28 - a flattering Proverbs 29:5 - that 1 Corinthians 6:18 - Flee James 3:6 - a world

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
Exodus 39:32
So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it.
Exodus 40:16
And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.
Psalms 119:6
Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
Matthew 3:15
But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.
Luke 8:21
But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.
John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.
John 13:17
If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
Philippians 2:8
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
Hebrews 5:8
And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That they may keep thee from the strange woman,.... Nothing has a greater tendency than Christ and his Gospel, and an intimate acquaintance with them, and a retention of them, to keep from all sin, from all fleshly lusts, from the sin of uncleanness; and also from all the errors, heresies, idolatry, superstition, and will worship, of the whore of Rome; a stranger to God and true godliness, to Christ and his truths, the Spirit and his operations;

from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

:-,

see Gill "Pr 5:3", and

see Gill "Pr 6:24".

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:5. The strange woman — The prostitute, the adulteress.


 
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