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Proverbs 22:25 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 22 · verse 25
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.Proverbs 22:25 · King James Version
Proverbs 22:25 in context
23For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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Key words (Strong's)
- learnʼâlaphhence, to learnH502 →
- snaremôwqêsha nooseH4170 →
- waysʼôracha well-trodden roadH734 →
- getlâqachto takeH3947 →
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Bible verses about Anger ManagementBible verses about Choosing FriendsBible verses about Difficult PeopleBible verses about Friendship
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Here is, 1. A good caution against being intimate with a passionate man. It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-25