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Proverbs 7:25

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

KJV

Ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua, neque decipiaris semitis ejus ;

Vulgate

μὴ ἐκκλινάτω εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἡ καρδία σου·

LXX

Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

ASV

אַל יֵ֣שְׂטְ אֶל דְּרָכֶ֣י/הָ לִבֶּ֑/ךָ אַל תֵּ֝תַע בִּ/נְתִיבוֹתֶֽי/הָ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
דֶּ֣רֶךְ
drk
noun · 709×
י
y
noun · 591×
י
y
noun · 26×
ם
m
verb · 51×
שָׂטִ֛ית
shtyt
verb · 6×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 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.
  • Mal 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife
  • Matt 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.
  • Prov 5:8 — Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
  • Prov 5:8 — Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
  • Prov 6:25 — Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • Prov 9:15 — To call passengers who go right on their ways: