Proverbs 6:23-25

English Standard Version

²³For the commandment is ^(A)a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the ^(B)reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
²⁴to preserve you from the evil woman,^[a]
    from the smooth tongue of ^(C)the adulteress.^[b]
²⁵^(D)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her ^(E)eyelashes;

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Footnotes

Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman

Proverbs 6:23-25

New International Version

²³For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,^(A)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,^(B)
²⁴keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.^(C)