Proverbs 11:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a lovely woman without discretion.

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  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
  • Ezek 16:15-22 : 15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your fornications on everyone that passed by; it was his. 16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so. 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them, 18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them; and you have set my oil and my incense before them. 19 My food also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet aroma; and thus it was, says the Lord GOD. 20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter, 21 That you have slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood.
  • Nah 3:4-6 : 4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries. 5 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will lift your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a spectacle.
  • 1 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Let your beauty not be the outward adornment of braiding hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
  • Gen 24:47 : 47 Then I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the nose ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
  • Prov 7:10 : 10 And it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
  • Prov 9:13 : 13 A foolish woman is loud: she is simple, and knows nothing.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."

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  • 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 prevailed over him.

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

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

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

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

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

  • Prov 3:14-16
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    14For its merchandise is better than the merchandise of silver, and its gain than fine gold.

    15She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared to her.

    16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    13A foolish woman is loud: she is simple, and knows nothing.

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

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

  • Prov 20:15
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    15There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

  • Prov 12:4
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    4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 21:19-20
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    19It is better to live in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.

    20There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends it up.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10Who can find a virtuous woman? For her worth is far above rubies.

  • 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 are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

  • Prov 8:11
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    11For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired cannot compare to it.

  • Prov 27:15-16
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    15A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

    16Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand reveals itself.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • Prov 7:10-12
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    10And it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.

    11She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:

    12Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

  • Prov 11:16
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    16A gracious woman retains honor, and strong men retain riches.

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Prov 25:11-12
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    11A word spoken at the right time is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

    12Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wrong.

  • 1 Pet 3:3
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    3Let your beauty not be the outward adornment of braiding hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel;

  • Prov 22:1
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    1A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For an unloved woman when she is married, and a maidservant who is heir to her mistress.

  • Prov 19:1
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    1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

  • Prov 4:9
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    9She will give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver to you.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Job 28:17
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    17The gold and the crystal cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

  • Prov 14:1
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    1Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands.

  • Isa 3:21
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    21The rings, and nose jewels,

  • Prov 17:12
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    12Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Job 39:17
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    17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has He imparted to her understanding.

  • Prov 9:16
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    16Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 5:6
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    6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

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