Proverbs 7:25
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Proverbs 7:25 in other translations
| BSB | Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. |
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| WEB | Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths, |
| ASV | Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths. |
| YLT | Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, |
| DARBY | Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths: |
| BBE | Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. |
| Webster | Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. |
What does Proverbs 7:25 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27
Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same…
Proverbs 7:25 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 7:25
- 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.
- Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Proverbs 5:23
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
- Proverbs 23:31-33
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
- Proverbs 4:14-15
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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Context
- Proverbs 7:24
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
- Proverbs 7:25
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- Proverbs 7:26
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Proverbs 7:25 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No se aparte á sus caminos tu corazón; no yerres en sus veredas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que ton cœur ne se détourne pas vers ses voies, et ne t’égare pas dans ses sentiers; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dein Herz wende sich nicht ab nach ihren Wegen, und irre nicht umher auf ihren Pfaden! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua, neque decipiaris semitis ejus; |