Proverbs 6:26

Bishops' Bible (1568)

By an harlot a man is brought to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.

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  • Prov 29:3 : 3 Who so loueth wisdome, maketh his father a glad man: but he that kepeth companie with harlottes, spendeth away that he hath.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 And all that are left in thyne house, shall come and crouch to him for a peece of siluer and a morsell of bread, and shal saye: Put me (I pray thee) in one office or other among ye priestes, that I may eate a morsell of bread.
  • Prov 5:10 : 10 That other men be not filled with thy vertues, and that thy labours come not in a straunge house.
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.
  • Gen 39:14 : 14 She called vnto the men of her house, and tolde them, saying: See, he hath brought in an Hebrue vnto vs, to do vs shame: for he came in to me to haue lyen with me, and I began to crie with a loude voyce:
  • Prov 29:8 : 8 Scornefull men bryng a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.
  • Ezek 13:8 : 8 Therfore thus saith the Lorde God, Because ye haue spoken vanitie, and haue seene lies: therfore beholde I am against you, saith the Lorde God:
  • Ezek 13:18 : 18 And say, thus saith the Lorde God: Wo be vnto them that sowe pillowes vnder all arme holes, and put kirchifes vpon the heades of euery stature to hunt soules. Wyll ye hunt the soules of my people, and geue life to the soules that come vnto you?
  • Luke 15:13-15 : 13 And not long after, when the younger sonne had gathered all that he had together, he toke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there wasted his goodes with riotous lyuyng. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a great dearth in all that lande, and he began to lacke. 15 And he ioyned hym selfe to a citizen of that countrey: and he sent hym to his farme, to feede swyne.
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 But assoone as this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy goodes with harlottes, thou hast for his pleasure kylled that fat calfe.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:24-25
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    24That they may kepe thee from the euyll woman, and from the flattering tongue of the straunge woman.

    25Lust not after her beautie in thyne heart, lest thou be taken with her fayre lokes.

  • Prov 6:32-33
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    32But whoso committeth adultrie with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: and he that doth it, destroyeth his owne soule.

    33He getteth him selfe a plague and dishonour, and his reproche shall neuer be put out:

  • Ezek 16:30-33
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    30Howe weake is thyne heart saith the Lorde God, seeing thou doest all these workes of a presumptuous whorishe woman?

    31Buylding thy hye places at the head of euery way, and makest thy hye places in euery streete: thou hast not ben as another whore that holdeth scorne of a rewarde.

    32But as a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, and taketh other in steede of her husbande.

    33Giftes are geuen to all other whores: but thou geuest rewardes vnto all thy louers, & rewardest them to come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

  • Prov 6:27
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    27May a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be brent?

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For an whore is a deepe graue, and a straunge woman is a narowe pit.

    28She lyeth in wayte as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours amongst men.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20Why wylt thou my sonne haue pleasure in a straunge woman, and embrace the bosome of a straunger?

  • Prov 30:19-20
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    19The way of an Egle in the ayre, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, the way of a ship in the middest of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman:

    20Such is the way also of a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, which wypeth her mouth lyke as when she hath eaten, and sayth, as for me I haue done no wickednesse.

  • Prov 2:16-18
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    16That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,

    17Forsaketh the husbande of her youth, & forgetteth the couenaunt of her God.

    18For her house is enclined vnto death, and her pathes vnto hell.

  • Prov 6:29-30
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    75%

    29Euen so, whosoeuer goeth in to his neyghbours wife and toucheth her, can not be vngiltie.

    30Men do not vtterly despise a thiefe that stealeth to satisfie his soule, when he is hungrie:

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle:

    4But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not thyne heart wander in her wayes, and be not thou deceaued in her pathes.

    26For many one hath she wounded and cast downe, yea many a strong man hath ben slaine by the meanes of her.

    27Her house is the way vnto hell, and bryng men downe into the chaumbers of death.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.

    22Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole that laugheth when he goeth to the stockes to be punished,

    23So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6Perchaunce thou wylt ponder the path of her lyfe: so vnstedfast are her wayes that thou canst not know them.

  • Prov 7:12
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    12Nowe is she without, nowe in the streates, and lyeth in wayte at euery corner.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may kepe thee from the straunge woman, and from the forraine woman which geueth sweete wordes.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall.

  • Prov 7:10
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    10And behold there met hym a woman with open tokens of an harlot, onlye her heart was hid:

  • Ezek 16:35
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    35Therefore heare the worde of the Lorde, O thou harlot.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16If a man entice a mayde that is not betrouthed, and lye with her, he shall endowe her, and take her to his wyfe.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22A faire woman without discrete maners, is lyke a ryng of golde in a swines snoute.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee, loue her, and she shall kepe thee.

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8Kepe thy way farre from her, & come not nigh the doores of her house.

    9That thou geue not thy honour vnto other, and thy yeres to the cruell:

  • Prov 9:16-17
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    72%

    16Who so is ignoraunt sayeth she let hym come hyther: and to the vnwyse she saith,

    17Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste.

  • Prov 20:16
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    16Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger: and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Thyne eyes shall beholde straunge women, and thyne heart shall vtter lewde thinges:

  • Jer 3:9
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    9Yea and the wantonnesse of her whoredome hath defyled the whole lande: For she hath comitted fornication with stones and stockes.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    16Know ye not, that he whiche coupleth him selfe with an harlot, is one body? For two (sayth he) shalbe one fleshe.

  • Prov 27:13
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    13Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger, and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Whordome, wine, and newe wine, take the heart away.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
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    6But she that liueth in pleasure, is dead beyng alyue.

  • Prov 29:3
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    3Who so loueth wisdome, maketh his father a glad man: but he that kepeth companie with harlottes, spendeth away that he hath.