Proverbs 6:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
keeping you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

New Living Translation
It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.

English Standard Version
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Berean Study Bible
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

New American Standard Bible
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

NASB 1995
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

NASB 1977
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Amplified Bible
To keep you from the evil woman, From [the flattery of] the smooth tongue of an immoral woman.

Christian Standard Bible
They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a stranger.

Contemporary English Version
They will protect you from the flattering words of someone else's wife.

Good News Translation
It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
to keep you from an evil woman and from the smooth talk of a loose woman.

International Standard Version
to protect you from the evil woman, from the words of the seductive woman.

NET Bible
by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

New King James Version
To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

King James 2000 Bible
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.

New Heart English Bible
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the foreign woman.

World English Bible
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

American King James Version
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

American Standard Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

A Faithful Version
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Darby Bible Translation
to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

English Revised Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Webster's Bible Translation
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
That they may kepe thee from the euyll woman, and from the flattering tongue of the straunge woman.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
that they maye kepe the fro the euell woman, & from the flaterynge tonge of the harlott:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
To preserve you from an evil woman, "" From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Young's Literal Translation
To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Smith's Literal Translation
To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Catholic Public Domain Version
So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
To keep you from the evil woman and from the slander of the tongue of the estranged woman.

Lamsa Bible
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the smoothness of the alien tongue.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
















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