Cross references

Proverbs 6:25

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty

or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Proverbs 6:25 BSB
  1. a Or eyelids or eyelashes

Proverbs 6:25 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to James 1:14–15 (10 votes) and Matthew 5:28 (9 votes). 25 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Genesis 39 to 1 John 2.

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Which verses does Proverbs 6:25 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

  2. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

  3. Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.

  4. One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” …

  5. You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.

  6. The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

Which verses point to Proverbs 6:25?

The 10 strongest of 25.