Proverbs 7:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Prov 23:28 : 28 She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
  • Prov 9:14 : 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 ¶ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift 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 16:24-25 : 24 [That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
  • Ezek 16:31 : 31 In 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;
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
  • Rev 18:23 : 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

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  • Prov 7:5-11
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    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:

  • 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him,

  • Prov 9:13-16
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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,

    15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:

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

  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

    21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],

  • Prov 7:21-22
    2 verses
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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;

  • Prov 9:2-4
    3 verses
    79%

    2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

    3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

    4 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

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

    3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

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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.

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

  • 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 6:24-26
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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.

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

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

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    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].

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

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

  • 11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

  • 17 Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

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

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

  • 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].

  • 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.

  • 29 From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off.

  • 6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

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

  • 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

  • 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.