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Proverbs 2:16
To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Proverbs 2:16 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 2:16 in other translations
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
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In context
13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
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