Proverbs 5:7 {8}
Good News Translation
Now listen to me, sons, and never forget what I am saying.

New Revised Standard Version
And now, my child, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Contemporary English Version
My son, listen to me and do everything I say.

New American Bible
So now, children, listen to me, do not stray from the words of my mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

hear

Proverbs 4:1 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

Proverbs 8:32-36 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. . . .

Proverbs 22:17-21 Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine: . . .

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

and depart

Proverbs 3:21 And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.

Proverbs 4:21 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.

Context
Avoiding Immorality
6Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 7Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.8Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:102
I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law.

Proverbs 7:24
Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.

Proverbs 8:32
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Proverbs 5:6
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