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23 Their commands are like a lamp.
    Their teaching is like a light.
And the correction that comes from them
    helps you have life.
24 Such teaching will keep you from sinful women
    and from the pleasing words of another man’s unfaithful wife.
25 Don’t want her because she is beautiful.
    Don’t let her capture you by the way she looks at you.

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

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

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