Proverbs 7:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

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  • Prov 23:28 : 28 Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
  • Prov 9:14 : 14 But she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate in the hie places of the citie,
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For of olde time I haue broken thy yoke, and burst thy bondes, and thou saidest, I will no more transgres, but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon al hie hilles, and vnder all greene trees.
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that thy waies are wickednesse.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why runnest thou about so much to change thy waies? for thou shalt be confounded of Egypt, as thou art confounded of Asshur.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift vp thine eyes vnto the hie places, and beholde, where thou hast not plaied the harlot: thou hast sit waiting for them in the waies, as the Arabian in the wildernesse: and thou hast polluted the lande with thy whoredomes, and with thy malice.
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 Thou hast also built vnto thee an hie place, and hast made thee an hie place in euery streete. 25 Thou hast built thine hie place at euery corner of the way, and hast made thy beautie to be abhorred: thou hast opened thy feete to euery one that passed by, & multiplied thy whoredome.
  • Ezek 16:31 : 31 In that thou buildest thine hie place in the corner of euery way, and makest thine hie place in euery streete, and hast not bene as an harlot that despiseth a reward,
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For all nations haue drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication with her, and the marchants of the earth are waxed rich of the abundance of her pleasures.
  • Rev 18:23 : 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more in thee: and the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride shalbe heard no more in thee: for thy marchants were the great men of the earth: and with thine inchantments were deceiued all nations.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:5-11
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    87%

    5That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

    6As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

    7And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

    8Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

    9In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.

    10And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

    11(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

  • Prov 7:13
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    13So she caught him & kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

  • Prov 9:13-16
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    13A foolish woman is troublesome: she is ignorant, and knoweth nothing.

    14But she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate in the hie places of the citie,

    15To call them that passe by the way, that go right on their way, saying,

    16Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisedome, shee sayth also,

  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.

    21She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

    22And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,

  • Prov 9:2-4
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    2She hath killed her vitailes, drawen her wine, and prepared her table.

    3She hath sent forth her maydens and cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie, saying,

    4Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisedome, she sayth,

  • Prov 8:2-3
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    2She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.

    3She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    76%

    25Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

    26For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, & the strong men are all slaine by her.

    27Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

    28Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26(7:28) And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    74%

    24To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

    25Desire not her beautie in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.

    26For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

  • Prov 2:16
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    16And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

    4But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

    5Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

    6She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20Such is ye way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayth, I haue not committed iniquitie.

  • Prov 2:18
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    18Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

  • Prov 3:17
    72%

    17Her wayes are wayes of pleasure, and all her pathes prosperitie.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

  • Prov 27:16
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    16He that hideth her, hideth the winde, & she is as ye oyle in his right hand, that vttereth it selfe.

  • Jer 6:7
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    7As the fountaine casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her malice: crueltie and spoyle is continually heard in her before me with sorowe and strokes.

  • Job 39:29
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    29(39:32) From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • Hos 2:10
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    10And now will I discouer her lewdnes in the sight of her louers, and no man shall deliuer her out of mine hand.

  • Song 3:2
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    2I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.