Proverbs 6:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Proverbs 6:24 Cross References

Genesis 39:8

But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Lo, having me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand;

Proverbs 2:16

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

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?

Proverbs 5:3

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

Proverbs 7:21

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

Proverbs 7:5

to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.