Proverbs 7:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Proverbs 7:5 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 6:24
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Prov. 6:20; and ending (Pr. 7:5) as that did (Pr. 7:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father’s commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons. He speaks in God’s name; for it is God’s comm…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. The design of the teaching (compare Pr 2:16; 6:24).