Holy Scripture
Proverbs 5:20
A church father on this verse
“When Scripture says, "Do not keep going steady with a foreign woman," it is advising us to make use of secular education but not to settle there permanently. Each generation received beneficial gifts at the appropriate points, but they were in preparation for the Word of the Lord.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Be not intimate with a strange woman, Neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.
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In context
18Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19Let thy loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, And let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; For ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.
— Proverbs 5:20 —
21For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, And he looks on all his paths.
22Iniquities ensnare a man, And every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.