Proverbs 6:23
For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,
In context
20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 21 Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck. 22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you. 23 For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life, 24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. 26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 6:23 in the KJV
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- ESV English Standard Version
— Proverbs 6:23 in the ESV
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,