Proverbs 23:28

Coverdale Bible (1535)

She lurketh like a thefe, and those that be not awarre she brigeth vnto her.

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  • Prov 7:12 : 12 now is she without, now i ye stretes, & lurketh i euery corner)
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I founde, that a woman is bytterer then death: for she is a very angle, hir hert is a nett, and hir handes are cheynes. Who so pleaseth God shal escape from her, but the synner will be taken wt her.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift vp thine eyes on euery syde, and loke, yf thou be not defyled. Thou hast waited for them in the stretes, and as a murtherer in the wildernesse. Thorow thy whordome and shamefull blasphemies, is the londe defyled.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Whordome, wyne and dronckennesse take the herte awaye.
  • 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Nether let vs commytte whordome, as some of them comytted whordome, and fell in one daye thre & twenty thousande.
  • Rev 17:1-2 : 1 And there cam one of the seue angels, which had the seuen vialles, and talked with me, sayenge vnto me: Come, I wil shewe the the iugdment of the greate whore, that sytteth vpon many waters, 2 with whom the kynges of the earth haue commytted whordome, and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornicacion.
  • Prov 7:22-27 : 22 Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed) 23 so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo. 24 Heare me now therfore (o my sonne) and marcke the wordes of my mouth. 25 Let not thine herte wandre in hir wayes, & be not thou disceaued in hir pathes. 26 For many one hath she wouded and cast downe, yee many a stronge ma hath she slayne. 27 Hir house is the waye vnto hell, where men go downe to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they cosider not that death is there, and that hir gestes go downe to hell.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall.
  • Num 25:1 : 1 And Israel dwelt in Sittim, and the people beganne to commytte whordome with the doughters of the Moabites,
  • Judg 16:4-9 : 4 After this he fell into the loue of a woman by ye broke of Sorek, whose name was Dalila, 5 vnto whom the prynces of the Philistynes came vp, and sayde vnto her: Persuade him, and loke wherin he hath soch greate stregth, & how we maye ouercome him, yt we mighte bynde him & subdue him, so wyll we geue the euery man a M. and an C. syluerlinges. 6 And Dalila sayde vnto Samson: I praye the tell me, wherin thy greate stregth is, & how thou mightest be bounde to be subdued. 7 Samson sayde vnto her: Yf I were bounde with seue roapes of fresh senowes, which are not yet dryed vp, I shulde be weake, and as another man. 8 The the prynces of the Philistynes broughte vp vnto her seuen new roapes, which were not yet dryed vp. And she bounde him therwith. 9 (But there was wayte layed for him besyde her in the chamber) and she sayde vnto him: The Pilistynes vpon the Samson. Neuertheles he brake the roapes in sunder, eue as a twyned threde breaketh, whan it hath catched the heate of the fyre. And it was not knowne wherin his strength was. 10 Then sayde Dalila vnto Samson: beholde, thou hast begyled me & dyssembled with me: tell me yet, wherwithall mayest thou be bounde? 11 He answered her: Yf they bounde me with new coardes, wherwith no labor hath bene done, I shulde be feble, & as another man. 12 Then toke Dalila new coardes, & bounde him withall, and sayde: The Philistynes vpo the Samson (but there was wayte layed for him in the chamber.) And he brake them from his armes, euen as it had bene a threde. 13 Dalila sayde vnto him: Yet hast thou begyled me & dessembled wt me: O tell me yet, wherwithall mightest thou be bounde? He answered her: Yf thou playtest seue hayrie lockes of my heade together in a fyllet, 14 and fastenest them in with a nayle (I shulde be weake.) And she saide vnto him: The Philistynes vpo the Samson. But he awaked out of his slepe, & drue out ye playted hayrie lockes with the nale and the fyllet. 15 The sayde she vnto him: How cast thou saye yt thou louest me, where as thine hert is not yet with me? Thre tymes hast thou disceaued me, and not tolde me wherin thy greate strength is. 16 So whan she was euery daye importune vpon him wt her wordes, & wolde not let him haue rest, his soule was faynte euen vnto the death, 17 & he shewed her his whole hert, & sayde vnto her: There came neuer rasoure vpon my heade, for I am a Nazaree of God fro my mothers wombe. Yf I were shauen, my strength shulde departe fro me, so that I shulde be weake, and as all other men. 18 Now whan Dalila sawe that he had opened all his hert vnto her, she sent & called for the prynces of the Philistynes, & sayde: Come yet once vp, for he hath opened his whole hert vnto me. The came the prynces of the Philistynes vp vnto her, & broughte the money wt them in their handes. 19 And she made him to slepe vpon hir lappe, & called one which shoue of the seue hayrie lockes of his heade. And she beganne to vexe him. The was his strength departed fro him. 20 And she sayde vnto him: The Philistynes vpon the Samson. Now wha he awoke out of his slepe, he thoughte: I wil go forth as I haue done aforetyme, & ease my selfe, & knewe not yt the LORDE was departed from him. 21 But the Philistynes toke him, & put out his eyes, and broughte him downe to Gasa, & bounde him wt fetters, and made him to grynde in the preson. 22 But the heer of his heade beganne to growe agayne, where it was shauen of.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 That thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne: which geueth swete wordes, 17 forsaketh the hu?bande of hir youth, and forgetteth the couenaunt of hir God. 18 For hir house is enclyned vnto death, and hir pathes vnto hell. 19 All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, nether take they holde of the waye of life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:27
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    27 For an whore is a depe graue, and an harlot is a narow pytt.

  • Prov 7:10-12
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    10 And beholde, there mett him a woma in an harlottes apparell

    11 (a disceatfull, waton & an vnstedfast woma: whose fete coude not abyde in ye house,

    12 now is she without, now i ye stretes, & lurketh i euery corner)

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    26 For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that priuely laye snares and waite for men, to take them, and destroye them.

    27 And like as a net is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that, which they haue gotten with falsede and disceate. Herof cometh their greate substaunce and riches,

  • Prov 6:26
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    26 An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Let not thine herte wandre in hir wayes, & be not thou disceaued in hir pathes.

    26 For many one hath she wouded and cast downe, yee many a stronge ma hath she slayne.

    27 Hir house is the waye vnto hell, where men go downe to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 1:16-18
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    16 For their fete rune to euell, & are haistie to shed bloude.

    17 But in vayne is ye net layed forth before the byrdes eyes.

    18 Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 but as a wife yt breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir hu?bode.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 Soch is the waye also of a wyfe yt breaketh wedlocke, which wypeth hir mouth like as wha she hath eate, & sayeth: As for me, I haue done no harme.

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21 Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him.

    22 Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed)

  • Prov 22:14
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    14 The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 And I founde, that a woman is bytterer then death: for she is a very angle, hir hert is a nett, and hir handes are cheynes. Who so pleaseth God shal escape from her, but the synner will be taken wt her.

  • Prov 5:3-5
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    70%

    3 For the lippes of an harlot are a droppinge hony combe, and hir throte is softer then oyle.

    4 But at ye last she is as bitter as wormwod, and as sharpe as a two edged swerde.

    5 Hir fete go downe vnto death, and hir steppes pearse thorow vnto hell.

  • Prov 1:11
    70%

    11 yf they entyse the, and saye: come wyth us, let us laye wayte for bloude, & lurke preuely for the innocet wythout a cause:

  • Prov 2:18
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    18 For hir house is enclyned vnto death, and hir pathes vnto hell.

  • Ezek 23:14
    69%

    14 But she increased still in whordome: for when she sawe men paynted vpon the wall, the ymages off the Caldees set forth with fresh colours,

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 So shal thine eyes loke vnto straunge women, & thine herte shal muse vpon frowarde thinges.

  • Job 39:29-30
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    29 From thence maye he beholde his praye, and loke farre aboute with his eyes.

    30 His yonge ones are fed with bloude, and where eny deed body lyeth, there is he immediatly.

  • Prov 2:15-16
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    15 whose wayes are croked, and their pathes slaunderous.

    16 That thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne: which geueth swete wordes,

  • Prov 9:14
    69%

    14 sytteth in the dores of hir house vpo a stole aboue in the cite,

  • Prov 6:24
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    24 that they maye kepe the fro the euell woman, & from the flaterynge tonge of the harlott:

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Yf it were myne enemie that reuyled me, I coude beare it: or yf one that ought me euell will dyd threaten me, I wolde hyde myself from him.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    56 And the woman that afore hath lyued so tenderly and voluptuously amonge you, that she durste not set the sole of hir fote vpon the grounde for tendernes and voluptuousnes, shal be greued to loke vpon hir husbande that lieth in hir bosome, and on hir sonne, and on hir doughter:

    57 euen because of hir doughters which she hath norished betwixte hir legges in hir lappe, and because of hir sonnes that she hath borne: For she shall eate them secretly for very scarcenesse of all thinges, in the straytnesse and sege, wherwith thine enemye shal besege ye within thy gates.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9 yee to rauish the poore, when he hath gotten him in to his nett.

  • Job 18:10
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    10 The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye.

  • Ezek 23:43
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    43 Then thought I: no doute, these wil vse their harlotry also wt yoder olde whore.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5 that she maye kepe ye fro ye strauge woma, & fro ye harlot which geueth swete wordes.

  • Prov 23:29
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    29 Where is wo? where is sorow? where is strife? where is braulynge? where are woundes without cause? where be reed eyes?

  • Prov 16:29
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    29 A wicked ma begyleth his neghbor, & ledeth him ye waye yt is not good.

  • Prov 28:28
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    28 Whan the vngodly are come vp, men are fayne to hyde them selues: but whe they perish, the rightuous increase.

  • Prov 9:3
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    3 She hath sent forth hir maydens to crie vpo the hyest place of the cite:

  • Prov 21:18
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    18 The vngodly shalbe geuen for the rightuous, & the wicked for the iust.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14 Beholde, he trauayleth with myschefe, he hath coceaued vnhappynesse, and brought forth a lye.

  • Hos 6:9
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    9 The multitude of the prestes is like an heape of theues, murtherers & bloudthurstie: for they haue wrought abhominacion.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5 Who so flatreth his neghbor, layeth a nette for his fete.

  • Ezek 22:25
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    25 thy prophetes that are in the, are sworne together to deuoure soules, like as a roaringe Lyon, that lyueth by his pray. They receaue riches and good, and make many wyddowes in ye.

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    7 Like as a codyte aboundeth in water, eue so this citie aboudeth in wickednes. Robbery and vnrightuousnesse is herde in her, sorow & woundes are euer there in my sight.

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    35 He conceaueth trauayle, he beareth myschefe, & his body bryngeth forth disceate.