Proverbs 7:25

25 Don't fool around with a woman like that; don't even stroll through her neighborhood.

Proverbs 7:25 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:25

Let not thine heart decline to her ways
Or turn not aside from the right way, the path of truth and holiness, to those of the whorish woman, that lead to ruin and destruction; do not so much as think of going out of the one into the other; let there not be the least wandering thought, affection, or disposition of the mind thereunto; stop and check the first motion of the heart, which leads to a compliance with her, and seems to be directed to her ways, or to betray any love and liking of them; go not astray in her paths;
for whoever walks in her paths goes astray from God and his law; from Christ and his Gospel; and from the true church of God; and from the right paths of faith, duty and worship.

Proverbs 7:25 In-Context

23 and then shot with an arrow, Like a bird flying into a net not knowing that its flying life is over.
24 So, friends, listen to me, take these words of mine most seriously.
25 Don't fool around with a woman like that; don't even stroll through her neighborhood.
26 Countless victims come under her spell; she's the death of many a poor man.
27 She runs a halfway house to hell, fits you out with a shroud and a coffin.
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