Verse 20

Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:24 : 24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 To keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; one who is cursed by the LORD will fall into it.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a narrow well is a deceitful woman. 28 She also lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words, 17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed spirits. 19 None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.