Proverbs 7:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

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  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
  • Judg 16:15-17 : 15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth]. 16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto death; 17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I [have been] a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man.
  • 1 Sam 28:23 : 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 ¶ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where [was] a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And [so] it was, [that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
  • Luke 14:23 : 23 ‹And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel› [them] ‹to come in, that my house may be filled.›
  • Luke 24:29 : 29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
  • Acts 16:15 : 15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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

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  • Prov 7:10-13
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    10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

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    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,

  • 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.

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  • Prov 7:5
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  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    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.

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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.

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

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

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