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Proverbs 7:1–5

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Warning Against the Adulterous Woman

My son,a keep my words

and store up my commands within you.

Keep my commands and you will live;b

guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Bind them on your fingers;

write them on the tablet of your heart.c

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and to insight, “You are my relative.”

They will keep you from the adulterous woman,

from the wayward woman with her seductive words.d

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Cross references

  1. a Pr 1:8
  2. bPr 4:4
  3. c Pr 3:3
  4. dver 21; Job 31:9; Pr 2:16; 6:24

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

My son, keep my words

and treasure up my commandments with you;

keep my commandments and live;

keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;

bind them on your fingers;

write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and call insight your intimate friend,

to keep you from the forbidden woman,

from the adulteress with her smooth words.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

My son, keep my words

and store up my commands within you.

Keep my commands and you will live;

guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Bind them on your fingers;

write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and to insight, “You are my relative.”

They will keep you from the adulterous woman,

from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My son, obey my words,

and treasure my commands.

Keep my commands and live,

and guard my instructions

as you would the pupil of your eye.

Tie them to your fingers;

write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and call understanding your relative.

She will keep you from a forbidden woman,

a wayward woman with her flattering talk.

NLTNew Living Translation

Follow my advice, my son;

always treasure my commands.

Obey my commands and live!

Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.

Tie them on your fingers as a reminder.

Write them deep within your heart.

Love wisdom like a sister;

make insight a beloved member of your family.

Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,

from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

My child, guard my sayings;

store my commandments with you.

Keep my commands and live,

and my teaching like the apple of your eye.

Bind them on your fingers;

write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, “you are my sister,”

and you shall call insight, “intimate friend.”

In order to guard yourself from an adulteress,

from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.

KJV 1900King James Version

My son, keep my words,

And lay up my commandments with thee.

Keep my commandments, and live;

And my law as the apple of thine eye.

Bind them upon thy fingers,

Write them upon the table of thine heart.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;

And call understanding thy kinswoman:

That they may keep thee from the strange woman,

From the stranger which flattereth with her words.