25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)We have here the application of the foregoing story: “ Hearken to me therefore , and not to such seducers (Pr. 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy.” 1. “Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pr. 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way of the adulteress, though green, and broad, and cro…
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