Proverbs 6:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a loose woman.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

Common English Bible

²⁴ They guard you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.

Proverbs 6:24 Cross References

Proverbs 2:16

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Genesis 39:8

But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me here, my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand.

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Proverbs 7:21

With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.