Proverbs 8:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:7 : 7 ¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
  • Matt 22:9 : 9 ‹Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.›
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 ‹So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.› 22 ‹And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.› 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.›
  • John 18:20 : 20 Jesus answered him, ‹I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.›
  • Acts 5:20 : 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:20-21
    2 verses
    88%

    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 8:1-2
    2 verses
    85%

    1 ¶ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

    2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

  • Prov 9:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    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 9:13-16
    4 verses
    80%

    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 7:8-13
    6 verses
    78%

    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,

  • 34 Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

  • 4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of man.

  • 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.

  • 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

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

  • 7 ¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!

  • Jer 17:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 ¶ Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

    20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

  • 6 ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

  • 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

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

    18 She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

  • 2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Song 3:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

    3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

  • Ps 118:19-20
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    69%

    19 ¶ Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:

    20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

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

  • 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.

  • 16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

  • 26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was light.

  • 4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

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

  • 2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.

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

  • 7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

  • 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

  • 10 Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, [and] terrible as [an army] with banners?

  • 9 If she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she [be] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.