Proverbs 23:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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  • Prov 22:14 : 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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  • Prov 22:14
    85%

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

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    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 23:28
    77%

    28She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.

  • Prov 7:5
    76%

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

  • Prov 2:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

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

    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.

  • Prov 5:20
    76%

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

  • Prov 5:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

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

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

  • Ezek 16:31-35
    5 verses
    75%

    31In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;

    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 23:33
    75%

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

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    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 7:25-27
    3 verses
    74%

    25Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

    26For she has cast down many wounded; indeed, many strong men have been slain by her.

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

  • Eccl 7:26
    73%

    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 5:8
    72%

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

  • Prov 11:22
    72%

    22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a lovely woman without discretion.

  • Prov 30:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a snake upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid.

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

  • Prov 27:13
    70%

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

  • Prov 9:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    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 23:26
    70%

    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 30:23
    70%

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

  • Prov 7:21-23
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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;

    23Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

  • Lev 19:29
    69%

    29Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to become a whore; lest the land become full of whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Jer 3:2
    68%

    2Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.

  • Ezek 23:17
    68%

    17And 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.

  • Prov 9:16
    68%

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

  • Prov 21:9
    68%

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

  • Prov 6:32
    68%

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

  • Nah 3:4
    68%

    4Because 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.

  • Prov 7:8
    68%

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

  • Mic 7:5
    68%

    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 27:15
    68%

    15A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.