Ecclesiasticus 9:7

Ecclesiasticus 9:7 Context

⁴Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts. ⁵Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her. ⁶Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance. ⁷Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither wander thou in the solitary place thereof. ⁸Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire. ⁹Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction. ¹⁰Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

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