Proverbs 22:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
  • Prov 6:24-29 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
  • Prov 7:5-9 : 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words. 6 ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, 14 [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed. 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life. 24 ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her. 27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 ¶ And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
  • Judg 16:20-21 : 20 And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words; 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them]. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

    28 She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

  • Prov 5:2-6
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    2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.

    3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:

    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

    5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

    6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

  • Prov 2:16-18
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    16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

    17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

    18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

    26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.

    27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 7:10-12
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    10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

    11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

    12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

    22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

    23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

  • Prov 18:7
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    7 A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22 ¶ [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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  • Prov 20:16
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    16 ¶ Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • Prov 14:1
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  • Prov 22:13
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    13 ¶ The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4 ¶ The words of a man's mouth [are as] deep waters, [and] the wellspring of wisdom [as] a flowing brook.

  • Prov 27:13
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    13 ¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    13 ¶ A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

    14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

  • Prov 6:32
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    32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12 ¶ The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 19:14
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    14 ¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.

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    14 ¶ Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10 ¶ Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession.