Proverbs 31:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

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  • Neh 13:26 : 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.
  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
  • Prov 5:9-9 : 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,
  • Prov 7:26-27 : 26 For she has cast down many wounded; indeed, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.

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  • Prov 31:4-5
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    25Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Prov 5:8-10
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    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:

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  • Prov 31:1-2
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    1The words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

    2What, my son? And what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows?

  • 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 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 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?

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

  • Prov 23:26
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    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

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

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

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

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.

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    6Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

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

  • Deut 17:17
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    17Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

  • 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 4:14-15
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    14Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

    15Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Job 31:10
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    10Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

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

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    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

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

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    19Will he value your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

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    17She girds herself with strength and strengthens her arms.

  • 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.

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    11Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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    3Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

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    27She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

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

  • Prov 2:19
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    19None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.

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    2You shall not take a wife for yourself, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.