Proverbs 23:27

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

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  • Prov 22:14 : 14 ¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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  • Prov 22:14
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    14¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    78%

    24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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

    26For 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 23:28
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    28She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

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

  • Prov 2:15-18
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    15Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

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

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

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

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:

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

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

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

  • Ezek 16:31-35
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    31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

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

    33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

    34And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

    35¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

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

  • Prov 7:10-12
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    10And, 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:

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

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

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

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

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And 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 5:8
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    8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

  • 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 30:19-20
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    19The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Prov 23:26
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    26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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

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

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

  • Lev 19:29
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    29Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Jer 3:2
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    2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Ezek 23:17
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    17And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

  • Prov 9:16
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    16Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

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

  • Nah 3:4
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    4Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Trust 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.

  • Prov 27:15
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    15¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.