Proverbs 6:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 29:3 : 3 Whoever loves wisdom makes his father glad; but he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
  • Prov 5:10 : 10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
  • Prov 7:23 : 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 39:14 : 14 That she called the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice:
  • Prov 29:8 : 8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare; but wise men turn away wrath.
  • Ezek 13:8 : 8 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken vanity and seen lies, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 13:18 : 18 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew cushions on all armholes and make veils for the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and save the souls alive that come to you?
  • Luke 15:13-15 : 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.

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  • Prov 6:24-25
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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.

  • Prov 6:32-33
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    32But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he who does it destroys his own soul.

    33A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

  • Ezek 16:30-33
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    30How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman;

    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.

  • Prov 6:27
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    27Can a man take fire into his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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

  • 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 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 30:19-20
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    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 2:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    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 6:29-30
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    29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

    30Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

  • 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 7:25-27
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    75%

    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.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    75%

    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.

  • 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 7:12
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    12Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

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

  • Ezek 16:35
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    35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

  • Exod 22:16
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    16If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a lovely woman without discretion.

  • Prov 4:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    72%

    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 9:16-17
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    72%

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

    17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

  • Prov 20:16
    72%

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

  • Prov 23:33
    72%

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

  • Jer 3:9
    71%

    9And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    71%

    16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

  • 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.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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

  • 1 Tim 5:6
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    6But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

  • Prov 29:3
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    3Whoever loves wisdom makes his father glad; but he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.