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Read Full Chapter (Proverbs 6) Proverbs 6:22-24 KJV
"When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."
Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 22-24
Proverbs 6:22-24 in Context (Verses 19–27 KJV)
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A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
20
¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
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When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:*
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To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.*
25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
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For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.*
27
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?