Proverbs 7:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

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  • Prov 23:28 : 28 She also lieth in wait as for a ey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
  • Prov 9:14 : 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
  • Ezek 16:31 : 31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth a waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
  • Rev 18:23 : 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no mo at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no mo at all in thee: for thy merchants we the gat men of the earth; for by thy sorceries we all nations deceived.

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  • Prov 7:5-11
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    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

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

    7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

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

    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

    10And, 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:

  • Prov 7:13
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    13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

  • Prov 9:13-16
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    13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

    14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

    15To call passengers who go right on their ways:

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

  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

    21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

    22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  • Prov 9:2-4
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    2She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

    3She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

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  • Prov 8:2-3
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    2She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

    3She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

    26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

    27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

    28She also lieth in wait as for a ey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And 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 6:24-26
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the ecious life.

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

  • Prov 2:16
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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

    5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

    6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

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    20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • Prov 2:18
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    18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

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

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

  • Prov 5:20
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    20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • Prov 27:16
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    16Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

  • Jer 6:7
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    7As 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.

  • Job 39:29
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    29From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6Therefore, beld, I will hedge up thy way with trns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

  • Hos 2:10
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    10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

  • Song 3:2
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    2I 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.