Proverbs 5:4

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But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

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  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I found that more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be caught by her.
  • Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has violated his covenant.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 He will send help from heaven and save me; He reproaches those who pursue me. Selah. God will send His steadfast love and His faithfulness.
  • Prov 6:24-35 : 24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman. 25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyes. 26 For a prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man hunts a precious life. 27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? 29 So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished. 30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving. 31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay back sevenfold; he may have to give up all the wealth of his house. 32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense; he destroys himself. 33 He will suffer wounds and disgrace, and his shame will never be wiped away. 34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance. 35 He will not accept any ransom, nor will he be appeased, no matter how great the gift you offer.
  • Prov 7:22-23 : 22 He follows her all at once, like an ox going to slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of shackles. 23 Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a narrow well is a deceitful woman. 28 She also lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
  • Heb 12:15-16 : 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many. 16 Make sure that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
  • Judg 16:4-6 : 4 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, 'Entice him and find out the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so that we may tie him up and subdue him. Each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.' 6 So Delilah said to Samson, 'Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.'
  • Judg 16:15-21 : 15 Then Delilah said to him, 'How can you say, “I love you,” when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and have not told me the secret of your great strength.' 16 With her nagging she pressed him day after day until he was sick to death of it. 17 So he told her everything: 'No razor has ever been used on my head,' he said, 'because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.' 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, 'Come back once more; he has told me everything.' So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. 19 After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven locks of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him. 20 Then she called, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' He awoke from his sleep and thought, 'I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.' But he did not know that the LORD had left him. 21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.

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    5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

    6She does not consider the path of life; her ways wander, but she does not know it.

  • Prov 5:3
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    3For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26I found that more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be caught by her.

  • Prov 2:15-19
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    15Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious.

    16It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words,

    17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

    18for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed spirits.

    19None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

    26For she has brought down many victims, and numerous are all those she has slain.

    27Her house is the way to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 23:32-33
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    32In the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

    25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyes.

    26For a prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man hunts a precious life.

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    14The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; one who is cursed by the LORD will fall into it.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a narrow well is a deceitful woman.

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    10And behold, a woman came to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and sly of heart.

    11She is loud and rebellious; her feet do not stay at home.

    12Now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner, she lurks.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21With her abundant persuasion, she entices him; with her smooth talk, she compels him.

    22He follows her all at once, like an ox going to slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of shackles.

    23Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him 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 those who take hold of her, and those who hold her fast are blessed.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5To keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Jer 6:7
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    7As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard within her; continually before me, there are sickness and wounds.

  • Num 5:24
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    24He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her, causing bitter suffering.

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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.

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    20Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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    31Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gates.

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    4A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.

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    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

  • Ezek 32:20
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    20They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is drawn; drag her down along with all her multitudes.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6I will not show mercy to her children, for they are the children of unfaithfulness.

  • Prov 27:15
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    15A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Do not abandon her, and she will guard you; love her, and she will protect you.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

  • Prov 9:2
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    2She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

  • Lam 3:15
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    15He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.