Proverbs 7:5

5 They'll be with you to fend off the Temptress - that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress.

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 Write it out on the back of your hands; etch it on the chambers of your heart.
4 Talk to Wisdom as to a sister. Treat Insight as your companion.
5 They'll be with you to fend off the Temptress - that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress.
6 As I stood at the window of my house looking out through the shutters,
7 Watching the mindless crowd stroll by, I spotted a young man without any sense
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