Proverbs 7:5

5 to keep you from ¹the forbidden^[a] woman, from ²the adulteress^[b] with her smooth words.

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 bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister, ”and call insight your intimate friend,

5 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

6 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,

7 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

Cross References

• 1. 7:5 See ch. 2:16
• 2. 7:5 See ch. 2:16

Footnotes

• [a] 7:5 Hebrew 'strange'
• [b] 7:5 Hebrew 'the foreign woman'