Proverbs 2:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

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  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a prostitute 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 are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.
  • Prov 7:5-9 : 5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice, 7 And saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking 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 it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. 11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home: 12 Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner. 13 So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him, 14 I have peace offerings with me; today I have paid my vows. 15 So I came out to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you. 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 delight ourselves with love. 19 For the man is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; 20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the appointed day. 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she prevailed over him. 22 He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know 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 prosper in his hands. 4 And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his care. 5 And from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, 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 care; and he did not concern himself with anything except the bread which he ate. And Joseph was a handsome person, and well-favored. 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 to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not concern himself with what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my care; 9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 10 And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not listen to her, to lie with her, or to be with her. 11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his work; and none of the men of the house was there inside. 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and ran outside.
  • Neh 13:26-27 : 26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them. 7 Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house: 9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger; 11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. 16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets. 17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love. 20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • 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 5:19-20
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    19Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

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

  • Prov 2:11-12
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    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

    12To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

  • Prov 5:2-4
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    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

    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 2:17-18
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    17Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

    18For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.

  • Ezek 16:32-35
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    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

    33They give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your whoredom.

    34And the opposite is in you from other women in your whoredoms, in that none pursue you to commit whoredoms; and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are contrary.

    35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

  • 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 7:21-22
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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 2:15
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    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

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

    8Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

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

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

    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 23:33
    75%

    33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    16Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

  • 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 4:24
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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • 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 27:13
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    13Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.

  • 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,

  • Jer 2:33
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    33Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways.

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

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

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

  • 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.

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

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

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

  • Prov 6:2
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    2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

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

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