Proverbs 7:22
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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Referenced Verses
- Job 13:27 : 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
- Jer 20:2 : 2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the LORD.
- Acts 14:13 : 13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.
- Acts 16:24 : 24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
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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.
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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,
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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.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him,
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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.
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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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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.
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22 ¶ [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
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16 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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4 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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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.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
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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.
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.
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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].
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14 ¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
15 ¶ Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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19 The 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.
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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12 ¶ Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
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23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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21 ¶ Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
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7 ¶ Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.
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7 A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
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8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
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9 [As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.
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8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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11 ¶ As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.
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27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.