Bible Strands
Proverbs 7:25
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A father addresses his sons in an urgent warning against the adulterous woman. He speaks at the moment of delivering final instructions before detailing her destructive consequences.
The words — לִבֶּ֑ךָ (li-be/kha) = your heart and תֵּ֝תַע (te-ta') = it go astray. These terms frame the command as an internal restraint that prevents external deviation.
The thread — The warning against straying from wise paths appears in Proverbs 5:8 and Proverbs 6:25, while Isaiah 53:6 applies the same straying imagery to collective human rebellion.
Why it lands — The text commands the reader to block internal desire and physically avoid her routes. It demands active restraint to prevent the destruction described in the surrounding lines.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 5:8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
- Proverbs 6:25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
- Isaiah 53:6 We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Matthew 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.
- Psalms 119:176 I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- Proverbs 4:14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
- Proverbs 5:23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
- Proverbs 23:31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.