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Proverbs 2:16
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Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
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Proverbs 2:16 in Other Translations
KJV
16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
ESV
16
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
NLT
16
Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
MSG
16
Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress - that smooth-talking Seductress
CSB
16
It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her flattering talk,
Proverbs 2:16 In-Context
14
who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15
whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16
Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17
who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18
Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
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Proverbs 5:1-6
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Proverbs 6:20-29
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Proverbs 7:5-27
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