Proverbs 6:25
23 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
24 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
- KJV
- Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- WEB
- Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
- ASV
- Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- DARBY
- Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
- BLB
- Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take hold of you with her eyelids.
- ÅB
- Attrå ikke hennes skjønnhet i ditt hjerte? og la henne ikke fange deg med sine øyekast!
- OTB
- Ønsk ikke hennes skjønnhet i ditt hjerte, og la henne ikke fange deg med sine øyne.
- B1930
- Attrå ikke hennes skjønnhet i ditt hjerte? og la henne ikke fange dig med sine øiekast!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
James 1:14–15
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
Read in contextMatthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Read in context2 Kings 9:30
Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
Read in context2 Samuel 11:2–5
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 4:9
You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:16
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
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