Proverbs 2:16-19

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It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,^(A)
from a stranger^(a) with her flattering talk,^(B)

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who abandons the companion of her youth^(C)
and forgets the covenant of her God;

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for her house sinks down to death
and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.^(D)

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None return who go to her;
none reach the paths of life.^(E)

a. Proverbs 2:16: Or foreign woman

A. Proverbs 2:16: Proverbs 9:13-18

B. Proverbs 2:16: Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 5:20; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 7:21; Proverbs 23:27

C. Proverbs 2:17: Malachi 2:14-15

D. Proverbs 2:18: Proverbs 7:27; Proverbs 9:18; Proverbs 21:16

E. Proverbs 2:16: Psalm 16:11; Proverbs 5:6; Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 7:21-27; Proverbs 23:27-28; Ecclesiastes 7:26