Proverbs 22:14

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The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

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  • Prov 23:27 : 27 for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
  • Prov 6:24-29 : 24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman. 25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes; 26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life. 27 Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? 29 So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
  • Prov 7:5-9 : 5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words. 6 For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out 7 and I saw among the naive– I discerned among the youths– a young man who lacked sense. 8 He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house 9 in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night. 10 Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent. 11 (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home– 12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.) 13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him, 14 “I have meat from my peace offerings at home; today I have fulfilled my vows! 15 That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you! 16 I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures. 19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance. 20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month.” 21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along. 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare 23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life. 24 So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak. 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways; 26 for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many. 27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 A Word of Judgment But the LORD took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.
  • Judg 16:20-21 : 20 She said,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and thought,“I will do as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the LORD had left him. 21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words; 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God. 18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits. 19 None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave. 6 Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it. 7 So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak. 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person, 10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house. 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 12 And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 13 For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors. 14 I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!” 15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth– 19 a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always. 20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? 21 For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths. 22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin. 23 He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:27-28
    2 verses
    85%

    27for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

    28Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

  • Prov 5:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

    3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

    4but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

    5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

    6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.

  • Prov 2:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;

    17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.

    18For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.

  • Prov 7:5
    77%

    5so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    77%

    24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

    25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

    26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

  • Prov 23:33
    76%

    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

  • Prov 5:20
    75%

    20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

  • Eccl 7:26
    73%

    26I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

    26for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many.

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

  • Prov 5:8
    72%

    8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

  • Ezek 16:32
    72%

    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.

    11(She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home–

    12at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

  • Prov 7:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.

    22Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

    23till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

  • Prov 18:7
    71%

    7The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.

  • Prov 11:22
    71%

    22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.

  • Prov 30:20
    71%

    20This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”

  • Mic 7:5
    70%

    5Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Even with the one who lies in your arms, do not share secrets!

  • Ps 7:15
    70%

    15he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.

  • Prov 22:5
    70%

    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

  • Prov 17:20
    70%

    20The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

  • Prov 26:27
    70%

    27The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone– it will come back on him.

  • Prov 20:16
    70%

    16Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.

  • Prov 14:1
    70%

    1Every wise woman has built her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

  • Prov 22:13
    70%

    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

  • Prov 4:24
    70%

    24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

  • Prov 18:4
    70%

    4The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

  • Prov 27:13
    70%

    13Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.

  • Prov 9:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

    14And she has sat down at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,

  • Prov 6:32
    69%

    32A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.

  • Eccl 10:12
    69%

    12Words and Works of Wise Men and Fools The words of a wise person win him favor, but the words of a fool are self-destructive.

  • Prov 21:9
    69%

    9It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

  • Prov 19:14
    69%

    14A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

  • Prov 10:14
    69%

    14Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.

  • Prov 28:10
    69%

    10The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.