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Proverbs 2:16–22

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16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,p

from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

17who has left the partner of her youth

and ignored the covenant she made before God.aq

18Surely her house leads down to death

and her paths to the spirits of the dead.r

19None who go to her return

or attain the paths of life.s

20Thus you will walk in the ways of the good

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21For the upright will live in the land,t

and the blameless will remain in it;

22but the wickedu will be cut off from the land,v

and the unfaithful will be torn from it.w

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Footnotes

  1. aOr covenant of her God

Cross references

  1. pPr 5:1–6; 6:20–29; 7:5–27
  2. qMal 2:14
  3. rPr 5:5; 7:27; 9:18
  4. sPr 3:16–18; 5:8; Ecc 7:26
  5. tSee Ps 37:29
  6. uSee Ps 5:4
  7. vSee Job 18:17
  8. wDt 28:63; See 29:28; Ps 37:9, 28–29; Pr 10:30

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,

from the adulteress with her smooth words,

who forsakes the companion of her youth

and forgets the covenant of her God;

for her house sinks down to death,

and her paths to the departed;

none who go to her come back,

nor do they regain the paths of life.

So you will walk in the way of the good

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

For the upright will inhabit the land,

and those with integrity will remain in it,

but the wicked will be cut off from the land,

and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,

from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,

who abandons the companion of her youth

and forgets the covenant of her God;

for her house sinks down to death

and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

None return who go to her;

none reach the paths of life.

So follow the way of the good,

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

For the upright will inhabit the land,

and those of integrity will remain in it;

but the wicked will be cut off from the land,

and the treacherous ripped out of it.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman,

from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.

She has abandoned her husband

and ignores the covenant she made before God.

Entering her house leads to death;

it is the road to the grave.

The man who visits her is doomed.

He will never reach the paths of life.

So follow the steps of the good,

and stay on the paths of the righteous.

For only the godly will live in the land,

and those with integrity will remain in it.

But the wicked will be removed from the land,

and the treacherous will be uprooted.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

in order to deliver you from a strange woman,

from a foreign woman who flatters with her sayings,

she who forsakes the partner of her youth

and has forgotten the covenant of her God,

for her house sinks to death,

and to the dead are her paths.

Of all who go to her, none shall return,

nor do they reach paths of life.

So that you will walk on the road of those who are good,

and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.

For those who are upright will dwell in the land,

and those who are blameless will remain in it.

And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land,

and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

To deliver thee from the strange woman,

Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth,

And forgetteth the covenant of her God.

For her house inclineth unto death,

And her paths unto the dead.

None that go unto her return again,

Neither take they hold of the paths of life.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,

And keep the paths of the righteous.

For the upright shall dwell in the land,

And the perfect shall remain in it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,

And the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

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