Proverbs 6:14-25

¹⁴His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

¹⁵Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

¹⁶For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.

¹⁷The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

¹⁸and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil,—are hateful to God.

¹⁹An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

²⁰My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:

²¹but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.

²²Whensoever thou walkest, lead this along and let it be with thee; and when thou sleepest let it keep thee; that it may talk with thee when thou wakest.

²³For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:

²⁴to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.

²⁵Let not the desire of beauty overcome thee, neither be thou caught by thine eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.