Proverbs 2:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

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  • Jer 3:4 : 4 Will you not from this time call to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
  • Ezek 16:8 : 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you, and covered your nakedness; yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
  • Ezek 16:59-60 : 59 For thus says the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish unto you an everlasting covenant.
  • Prov 5:18 : 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. 15 And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce; for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

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

    19 None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.

  • Prov 2:16
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    16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

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

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

  • Jer 2:32-33
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    32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

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

  • Prov 5:18-20
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    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?

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

  • Hos 2:5-7
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    5 For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

    6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.

    7 And she shall pursue her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now.

  • Mal 2:14
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    14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

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    20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

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

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    35 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you shall also bear your lewdness and your harlotries.

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

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

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

  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

    20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

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

  • Jer 2:17
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    17 Have you not brought this upon yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?

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

  • Isa 54:6
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    6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.

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    13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.

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    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:

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    43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have grieved me in all these things; behold, therefore I will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD; and you shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.

  • Jer 11:15
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    15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

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    17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

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    19 Yet she multiplied her harlotries, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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

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    13 Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

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

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    10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house;

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    6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

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    32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he who does it destroys his own soul.

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    20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

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    20 Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long?

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