Pro 6:24-25 | MHM | STEP | v. 24 : To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman . One of the main reasons for obeying wise advice is protection from dangerous temptations. Solomon warns especially against being trapped by immoral people. When we keep good teaching in our hearts, it can help us recognize and avoid sin, especially when others try to trick us with flattering words.

‏ Proverbs 6:24-25

v. 24: To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman . One of the main reasons for obeying wise advice is protection from dangerous temptations. Solomon warns especially against being trapped by immoral people. When we keep good teaching in our hearts, it can help us recognize and avoid sin, especially when others try to trick us with flattering words.

Guard Your Heart Against Lust

v. 25: Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids .

The greatest kindness we can do for ourselves is to keep far from this sin and to view it with the utmost dread and disgust. Solomon warns us not even to let our hearts be drawn by the beauty of a seductress. If you allow lust to take root in your heart, you have already committed adultery there. Do not be captivated by her looks or her flirtatious glances—they are snares and traps. Her eyes may seem alluring, but they are like arrows and fiery darts that wound and destroy, not in the way lovers imagine, but in a way that leads to ruin. What the world calls a “pleasing captivity” is actually a destroying one, worse than Egyptian slavery. The battle against lust begins in the heart and mind.