Proverbs 7:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 16:1 : 1 Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-3 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men. 15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
  • Prov 5:8 : 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
  • Prov 7:12 : 12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
  • 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
  • Jude 1:23 : 23 And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:5-7
    3 verses
    84%

    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

    6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

    7I saw among the young men one without sense,

  • Prov 7:9-13
    5 verses
    83%

    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.

    13So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

  • Prov 7:18-22
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    79%

    18Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

    19For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

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

    21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

    22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

  • Prov 5:8
    79%

    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 9:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

    14Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

    15Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

    16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 9:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 8:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

    3Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

  • Prov 2:16-18
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    74%

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

    18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

  • Job 29:7
    74%

    7When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

  • Song 3:2-4
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    2I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

    3The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

    4I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

  • Song 7:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:15
    72%

    15Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

  • Song 1:8
    72%

    8If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

  • Prov 5:6
    72%

    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 3:17
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    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 5:20-21
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    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

    21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

  • Prov 1:21
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    21Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Song 5:7
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    7The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

  • Eccl 7:25-26
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    25I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

    26And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Judg 19:26-27
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    71%

    26Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.

    27In the morning her master got up, and opening the door of the house went out to go on his way; and he saw his servant-wife stretched on the earth at the door of the house with her hands on the step.

  • Prov 30:19
    71%

    19The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

  • Prov 8:34
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    34Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

  • Song 6:1
    71%

    1Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

  • Deut 22:27
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    27For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.