Proverbs 7:4 {5}
Good News Translation
Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend.

New Revised Standard Version
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,

Contemporary English Version
Let wisdom be your sister and make common sense your closest friend.

New American Bible
Say to Wisdom, “You are my sister!” Call Understanding, “Friend!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.

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Proverbs 2:2-4 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: . . .

Proverbs 4:6-8 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. . . .

Proverbs 11:18-20 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death. . . .

Isaiah 30:8 Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.

Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2 Corinthians 3:3 Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
3Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend, 4That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.5For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,…
Cross References
Proverbs 7:3
Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

Proverbs 7:5
For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,

Proverbs 7:3
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