Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
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- Job 31:9-9 : 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. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
- Hos 7:4-7 : 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, w ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7 They are all t as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
- Jas 3:5 : 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
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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.
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6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
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27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
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21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
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18 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
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21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
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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.
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6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
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13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
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5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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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 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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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.
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14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
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14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
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16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
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29 For our God is a consuming fire.
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6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
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5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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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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4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
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3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
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9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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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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24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
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23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
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9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
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31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.