Proverbs 2:16

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

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  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 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 7:5-9 : 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: 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, 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 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. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
  • Gen 39:3-9 : 3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. 6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured. 7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. 8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; 9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. 11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
  • Neh 13:26-27 : 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: vertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 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. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reoof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 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?
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man that flattereth his neighbour seadeth a net for his feet.

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

  • 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 ecious life.

  • Prov 5:19-20
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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?

  • Prov 2:11-12
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    11 Discretion shall eserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

    12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

  • Prov 5:2-4
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    2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

    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.

  • Prov 2:17-18
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    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.

  • Ezek 16:32-35
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    32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

    33 They 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.

    34 And 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 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 7:21-22
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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 2:15
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    15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

    7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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

    9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • Prov 23:27
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    27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

    6 Forsake her not, and she shall eserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

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

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

  • Prov 20:16
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    16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • Prov 7:10-12
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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.)

  • Prov 4:24
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    24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  • Eccl 7:26
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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.

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

  • Jer 2:33
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    33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

  • Prov 5:17
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    17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Prov 2:20
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    20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 30:20
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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.

  • Ps 144:11
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    11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

  • Mic 7:5
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    5 Trust 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 22:25
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    25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

  • Prov 3:17
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    17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  • Prov 6:2
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    2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

  • Prov 4:15
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    15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

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