Proverbs 9:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Prov 7:13-15 : 13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: 14 I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected. 15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
  • Prov 7:25-27 : 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. 26 For 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. 27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. 28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

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

  • Prov 9:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

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

  • Prov 9:1-6
    6 verses
    81%

    1 Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

    2 She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

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

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

    5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

    6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

  • Prov 8:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1 Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

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

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

    4 I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

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

  • Prov 7:5-8
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    5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

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

    7 I saw among the young men one without sense,

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

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

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

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

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

  • 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 2:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

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

    19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

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

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

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

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

  • Prov 4:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • 29 Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?

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

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

  • 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

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

  • Prov 2:15-16
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    69%

    15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

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

  • 9 He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

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

  • 9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

  • 21 And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

  • 20 I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

  • 17 The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

  • 15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • 9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

  • 9 They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

  • 19 This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

  • 32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!