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23 For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light,
    and the way of life[a] is the reproof of discipline,
24 in order to preserve you from an evil woman,[b]
    from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.[c]
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart;
    may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:23 Hebrew “lives”
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Or “wife”
  3. Proverbs 6:24 Literally “a foreign woman”

23 For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,(A)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,(B)
24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(C)

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

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

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

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

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