Proverbs 7:5

5 in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk.

Proverbs 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the strange woman
Nothing has a greater tendency than Christ and his Gospel, and an intimate acquaintance with them, and a retention of them, to keep from all sin, from all fleshly lusts, from the sin of uncleanness; and also from all the errors, heresies, idolatry, superstition, and will worship, of the whore of Rome; a stranger to God and true godliness, to Christ and his truths, the Spirit and his operations; from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
(See Gill on Proverbs 2:16), (See Gill on Proverbs 5:3), and (See Gill on Proverbs 6:24).

Proverbs 7:5 In-Context

3 Tie them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister." Give the name "my relative" to understanding
5 in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk.
6 From a window in my house I looked through my screen.
7 I was looking at gullible people when I saw a young man without much sense among youths.
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