“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
Proverbs 6:25 (KJV) |
Proverbs 6:25
From Proverbs 6, in the Book of Proverbs (Old Testament).
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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?