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16 delivering you from the adulteress,
    from the immoral[a] woman with her seductive words,
17 someone who abandoned the companion of her youth
        and forgot the covenant of her God.
18 For her house leads down to death,
    and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
19 None who go to her return,
nor do they reach the paths of life.

20 This is how you will walk in the way of good men
    and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Lit. foreign; i.e. one whose values are foreign to God’s Law