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Proverbs 6:25
25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
Proverbs 6:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t lust for her beauty. Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.
Context of Proverbs 6:25
23For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life, 24keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman. Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. 26For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life. 27Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
Read all of Proverbs 6Proverbs 6:25 word by word
אַל־תַּחְמֹ֣ד יָ֭פְיָהּ בִּלְבָבֶ֑ךָ וְאַל־תִּ֝קָּֽחֲךָ֗ בְּעַפְעַפֶּֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 6:25
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,
- Matthew 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- James 1:14but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.
- 2 Kings 9:30Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.
- Isaiah 3:16The Lord says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
Commentaries on Proverbs 6:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25Neither let her take thee with her eye-lids - It is a very general custom in the East to paint the eye-lids. I have many Asiatic drawings in which this is expressed. They have a method of polishing the eyes with a preparation of antimony, so that they appear with an indescribable lustre; or, as one who mentions the fact from observation, "Their eyes appear to be swimming in bliss."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25Eyelids - Possibly pointing to the Eastern custom of painting the eyes on the outside with kohl so as to give brightness and languishing expression.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-35Verses 20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-25The immoral woman uses flattering words and physical beauty to attract young men.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. One of the cautions of this instruction, avoid alluring beauty. take--or, "ensnare." eyelids--By painting the lashes, women enhanced beauty.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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