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23 Your father’s command is like a lamp.
    Your mother’s teaching is like a light.
And whatever instructs and corrects you
    leads to life.
24 It keeps you from your neighbor’s wife.
    It keeps you from the smooth talk of a woman who commits adultery.
25 Don’t hunger in your heart after her beauty.
    Don’t let her eyes capture 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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