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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 7, Verse 1

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He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
American Standard Version
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
New English Translation
Admonition to Avoid the Wiles of the Adulteress My child, devote yourself to my words and store up my commands inside yourself.
World English Bible
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
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Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
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Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: