Proverbs 9:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 9:14 : 14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,
  • Prov 8:1-3 : 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:
  • Ps 68:11 : 11 The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.
  • Prov 1:20-23 : 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: 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? 23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
  • Matt 22:3-4 : 3 And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come. 4 Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.
  • Matt 22:9 : 9 Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.
  • Luke 11:49 : 49 For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;
  • Luke 14:17 : 17 And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready.
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body. 22 And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room. 23 And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.
  • John 7:37 : 37 On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.
  • John 18:20 : 20 Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.
  • Rom 10:15 : 15 And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.
  • 2 Cor 5:20-21 : 20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. 21 For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 9:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Prov 9:13-16
    4 verses
    83%

    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,

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

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

  • Prov 1:20-21
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    82%

    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 8:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    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:

  • Prov 9:4-5
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    81%

    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.

  • Prov 7:10-13
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    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.

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

  • Isa 3:26
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    26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

  • Lam 1:1-2
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    73%

    1 See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

    2 She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

  • Ezek 16:31-32
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    73%

    31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

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

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    72%

    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.

  • Ezek 23:42-43
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    42 ... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.

    43 Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Rev 18:7
    72%

    7 As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.

  • Zeph 3:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

    2 She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

    3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

  • Lam 1:8-10
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    72%

    8 Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

    9 In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

    10 The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

  • Zeph 2:15
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    15 This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

  • Jer 6:7
    70%

    7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

  • Nah 3:4
    70%

    4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

  • Song 6:10
    70%

    10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

  • Jer 11:15
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    15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • Ezek 16:35
    70%

    35 For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

  • Rev 18:9
    70%

    9 And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

  • Jer 50:15
    70%

    15 Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.

  • Ezek 16:25
    70%

    25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.

  • Song 3:2
    69%

    2 I 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.

  • Ezek 23:14
    69%

    14 And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

  • Job 39:29
    69%

    29 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

  • Prov 3:17
    69%

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

  • Prov 2:18
    69%

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

  • Ezek 24:7
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    7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;