Proverbs 11:22

American Standard Version (1901)

[ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.

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  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
  • Ezek 16:15-22 : 15 But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so] . 17 Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play the harlot with them; 18 and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them. 19 My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, saith the Lord Jehovah. 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter, 21 that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] unto them? 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood.
  • Nah 3:4-6 : 4 because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. 5 Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
  • 1 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; 4 but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
  • Gen 24:47 : 47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.
  • Prov 7:10 : 10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
  • Prov 9:13 : 13 The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:21-22
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    73%

    21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

    22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

    31Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    72%

    24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

  • Prov 3:14-16
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    14For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof than fine gold.

    15She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.

    16Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23The desire of the righteous is only good; [But] the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    13The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

    14And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

  • Prov 20:15
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    15There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

  • Prov 12:4
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    4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 21:19-20
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    19It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

    20There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

  • Prov 8:11
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    11For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.

  • Prov 27:15-16
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    15A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

    16He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
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    10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

    11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

    12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • Prov 11:16
    71%

    16A gracious woman obtaineth honor; And violent men obtain riches.

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

    4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Prov 25:11-12
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    70%

    11A word fitly spoken Is [like] apples of gold in network of silver.

    12[ As] an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [So is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • 1 Pet 3:3
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    3Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

  • Prov 22:1
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    1A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

  • Prov 19:1
    69%

    1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

  • Prov 2:4
    69%

    4If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

  • Prov 4:9
    69%

    9She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to thee.

  • Ezek 16:32
    69%

    32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Job 28:17
    69%

    17Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

  • Prov 14:1
    68%

    1Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

  • Isa 3:21
    68%

    21the rings, and the nose-jewels;

  • Prov 17:12
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    12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Job 39:17
    68%

    17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

  • Prov 9:16
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    16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

  • Prov 5:6
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    6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?