Proverbs 7:8

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Passing through the street near her corner, he took the path to her house.

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  • Judg 16:1 : 1 Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to her.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-3 : 2 One evening, David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful. 3 David sent someone to inquire about the woman, and it was reported to him, 'Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?'
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. 15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way.
  • Prov 5:8 : 8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house.
  • Prov 7:12 : 12 Now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner, she lurks.
  • 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside the body, but the one who sins sexually sins against their own body.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  • Jude 1:23 : 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire, and on some, show mercy with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    6 For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked out.

    7 And I saw among the naive ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding.

  • Prov 7:9-13
    5 verses
    83%

    9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the dark of night and in deep darkness.

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

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

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

    13 She took hold of him and kissed him; with a brazen face she said to him:

  • Prov 7:18-22
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    18 'Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with loving caresses.'

    19 'For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.'

    20 'He took a bag of silver with him and will not return home until the full moon.'

    21 With her abundant persuasion, she entices him; with her smooth talk, she compels him.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 9:14-16
    3 verses
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    14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

    15 calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way,

    16 "Whoever is simple, let them turn in here! To those who lack understanding, she says:

  • Prov 9:3-4
    2 verses
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    3 She has sent out her maidens; she calls out from the highest points of the city,

    4 "Whoever is simple, let them turn in here! To those who lack understanding, she says:

  • Prov 8:2-3
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    2 On the heights along the way, at the crossroads, she takes her stand.

    3 Beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries out.

  • Prov 2:16-18
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    16 It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words,

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

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

  • 7 When I went out to the city gate, and took my seat in the public square,

  • Song 3:2-4
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    2 I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and the squares; I will seek the one my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

    3 The watchmen who patrol the city found me. "Have you seen the one my soul loves?"

    4 Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.

  • 11 I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

  • 15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way.

  • 8 If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats near the shepherds' tents.

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

  • 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  • Prov 5:20-21
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    20 Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

    21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and He examines all his paths.

  • 21 At the head of the noisy streets, she calls out; at the city gates, she makes her speech.

  • 20 So you will walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

  • 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me; they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

  • Eccl 7:25-26
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    25 I turned my mind to understand, to investigate, and to search out wisdom and the meaning of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

    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.

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    26 At daybreak, the woman came and fell at the doorway of the man's house where her master was staying, and she lay there until it was light.

    27 Her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went out to continue on his way. There was the woman, his concubine, lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

  • 19 The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.

  • 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances.

  • 1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

  • 27 For he found her in the field, and though the betrothed young woman cried out for help, there was no one to rescue her.

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