Proverbs 2:16
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
In context
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, 15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. 16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, 17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;
19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 2:16 in the KJV
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 2:16 in the NIV
Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,