Proverbs 5:4

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And 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. [
  • Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Prov 6:24-35 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue. 25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life. 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned? 28 Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched? 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished. 30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry: 31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house. 32 He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul. 33 Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away. 34 For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 35 He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
  • Prov 7:22-23 : 22 He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool; 23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit. 28 Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
  • Heb 12:15-16 : 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled; 16 lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
  • Judg 16:4-6 : 4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver. 6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
  • Judg 16:15-21 : 15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. 16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death. 17 And he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money in their hand. 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he knew not that Jehovah was departed from him. 21 And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

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

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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

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  • Prov 2:15-19
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    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;

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    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.

  • Prov 23:32-33
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    32At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

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    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.

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

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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.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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

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    10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

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  • Prov 7:21-23
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    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.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

  • Jer 6:7
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    7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

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    24and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter.

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    5Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

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

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

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

  • Rom 3:14
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    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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    20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

  • 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 11:22
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    22[ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

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

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee.

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    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.

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    2She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:

  • Lam 3:15
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    15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.