Proverbs 7:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

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  • Matt 20:11 : 11 And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
  • Matt 24:43 : 43 But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.
  • Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;
  • Mark 13:34-36 : 34 It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch. 35 So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning; 36 For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.
  • Luke 12:39 : 39 But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.
  • Luke 12:45-46 : 45 But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine; 46 The lord of that servant will come at a time when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not ready for him, and he will have him cut in two and will give him his part in the fate of those who have no faith;

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    20He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.

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  • Prov 7:18
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  • Prov 7:6-12
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    6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

    7I saw among the young men one without sense,

    8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

    9At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

    10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

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    11Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

  • Deut 20:6-7
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  • Luke 19:12
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    12So he said, A certain man of high birth went into a far-away country to get a kingdom for himself, and to come back.

  • Mark 13:34-35
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    34It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

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  • Prov 27:8
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    8Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

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