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Even as Solomon warned his son to refuse the enticements of the world, the flesh, and the Devil, so you also, O Lord, have warned us to do the same in this verse from Proverbs. We are your sons and your daughters, and you provide us with the instruction we need to follow you. Those who have cast off any purpose to obey your law and live in a continual, unrepentant practice of sin, "sinners," love to cause others to fall. But however great the allurement or "enticement" may be, we cannot be forced to sin against our own wills. We must choose to yield ourselves to God instead of to sin (Romans 6:13).