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Proverbs 5:8

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Proverbs 5:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Proverbs 5:8

Theological / Devotional

Come not nigh. The need is stressed to keep oneself out of temptation rather than to trust in one’s ability to resist those incitements to sin that have overcome so many men, great and small (Prov. 4:14; 7:24–27; 1 Cor. 6:18; 2 Tim. 2:22).

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