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23 Because the command is a lamp
    and the Law a light,
        rebukes that discipline are a way of life—
24 to protect you from the evil[a] woman,
    from the words of the seductive woman.

25 Do not focus on her beauty in your mind,
    nor allow her to take you prisoner with her flirting eyes,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 So MT; LXX reads married

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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