Proverbs 7:5
to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
In context
2 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3 bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, 5 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
6 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, 7 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, 8 passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 7:5 in the KJV
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 7:5 in the NIV
They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.