Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot:
New American Standard Bible
From the smooth tongue of the
King James Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Holman Bible
from the flattering
International Standard Version
to protect you from the evil woman, from the words of the seductive woman.
A Conservative Version
to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.
American Standard Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
Amplified
To keep you from the evil woman,
From [the flattery of] the smooth tongue of an immoral woman.
Bible in Basic English
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
Darby Translation
to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Julia Smith Translation
To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.
King James 2000
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.
Modern King James verseion
to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
NET Bible
by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
New Heart English Bible
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the foreign woman.
The Emphasized Bible
To keep thee from the wicked woman, from the flattery of the tongue of her that is a stranger.
Webster
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
World English Bible
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
Youngs Literal Translation
To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Themes
Adultery » Adulterers and adulteresses
Women » Harlots » Warnings against
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Commandment And Instruction As Guardians
23 For the commandment is a lantern, and the law a light: yea, chastening and nurture is the way of life: 24 that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot: 25 that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16
That thou mayest be delivered also from the strange woman, and from her that is not thine own: which giveth sweet words,
Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a harlot are a dropping honeycomb, and her throat is softer than oil.
Proverbs 7:5
That she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.