💡WEB · Proverbs 2:16
What does Proverbs 2:16 mean?
"To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;"
— Proverbs 2:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
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