Proverbs 5:9

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Gen 38:23-26 : 23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 26 And Judah acknowledd them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
  • Judg 16:19-21 : 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
  • Neh 13:26 : 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.
  • Prov 6:29-35 : 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; 31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reoach shall not be wiped away. 34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
  • Hos 4:13-14 : 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit wredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit wredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with wres, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

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  • Prov 5:10-11
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    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,

  • Prov 5:6-8
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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:

  • 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 5:17-18
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    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.

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

  • 3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

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

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

  • 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

  • 17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

  • Prov 2:16-17
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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.

  • Job 31:9-11
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    9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

    10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

    11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

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

  • 2 Let another man aise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

  • 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

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

  • 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

  • Prov 25:8-10
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    8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

    9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

    10 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

  • 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

  • 16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

  • Hab 2:9-10
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    9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

    10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

  • 28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

  • 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.

  • 18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

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

  • 6 Put not forth thyself in the esence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

  • 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

  • 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

  • 29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; st the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

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

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

  • Prov 4:8-9
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    8 Exalt her, and she shall omote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

    9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

  • 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

  • 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reoach shall not be wiped away.

  • 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

  • 31 Envy thou not the opessor, and choose none of his ways.