Proverbs 7:5 (BSB)

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:5

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:1-5: These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Pro 6:20, etc., and ending (Pro 7:5) as that did (Pro 6:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father's commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:5: That they may keep thee from the strange woman,.... Nothing has a greater tendency than Christ and his Gospel, and an intimate acquaintance with them, and a retention of them, to keep from all sin, from all fleshly lusts, from the sin of uncleanness; and also from all the errors, heresies, idolatry, superstition, and will worship, of the whore of Rome; a stranger to God...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:5: The design of the teaching (compare Pro 2:16; Pro 6:24).
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:4-5: Pro 7:4-5 The subject-matter of this earnest warning are the admonitions of the teacher of wisdom, and through him of Wisdom herself, who in contrast to the world and its lust is the worthiest object of love, and deserves to be loved with the purest, sincerest love: 4 Say to wisdom: “Thou art my sister!” And call understanding “Friend;” 5 That they may keep thee...