Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Do not focus on her beauty in your mind, nor allow her to take you prisoner with her flirting eyes,
New American Standard Bible
Nor let her capture you with her
King James Version
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Holman Bible
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.
A Conservative Version
Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.
American Standard Version
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Amplified
Do not desire (lust after) her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her eyelashes.
Bible in Basic English
Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
Darby Translation
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.
King James 2000
Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her allure you with her eyelids.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
Modern King James verseion
Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.
NET Bible
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
New Heart English Bible
Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes;
Webster
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
World English Bible
Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Youngs Literal Translation
Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Commandment And Instruction As Guardians
24 to protect you from the evil 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, 26 because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man's precious life.
Cross References
2 Kings 9:30
As soon as Jehu arrived at Jezreel, Jezebel adorned her eyes, arranged her hair, and peered out a window.
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you, anyone who stares at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
2 Samuel 11:2-5
Late one afternoon about dusk, David got up from his couch and was walking around on the roof of the royal palace. From there he watched a woman taking a bath, and she was very beautiful to look at.
Song of Songs 4:9
You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride. You have made my heart beat faster with one glance of your eyes, with one strand of your necklace.
Isaiah 3:16
The LORD also says: "Because Zion's women are so haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, prancing along as they walk, and making tinkling noises with their ankle bracelets,
James 1:14-15
Instead, each person is tempted by his own desire, being lured and trapped by it.