Proverbs 23:27

American Standard Version (1901)

For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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Referenced Verses

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

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  • Prov 22:14
    85%

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

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    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 23:28
    77%

    28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

  • Prov 7:5
    76%

    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 2:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

    18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

  • Prov 5:20
    76%

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

  • Prov 5:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

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

  • Ezek 16:31-35
    5 verses
    75%

    31in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.

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

    33They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

    34And thou art different from [other] women in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.

    35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

  • Prov 23:33
    75%

    33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    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 7:25-27
    3 verses
    74%

    25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

    26For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

    27Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

  • Eccl 7:26
    73%

    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 5:8
    72%

    8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

  • Prov 11:22
    72%

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

  • Prov 30:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.

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

  • Prov 27:13
    70%

    13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge [that is surety] for a foreign woman.

  • Prov 9:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    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 23:26
    70%

    26My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

  • Prov 30:23
    70%

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

  • Prov 7:21-23
    3 verses
    70%

    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;

    23Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

  • Lev 19:29
    69%

    29Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Jer 3:2
    68%

    2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Ezek 23:17
    68%

    17And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

  • Prov 9:16
    68%

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

  • Prov 21:9
    68%

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

  • Prov 6:32
    68%

    32He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

  • Nah 3:4
    68%

    4because 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.

  • Prov 7:8
    68%

    8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

  • Mic 7:5
    68%

    5Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

  • Prov 27:15
    68%

    15A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike: