Proverbs 5:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:24 : 24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well. 28 Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women(besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
  • 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.

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    17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

    18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–

    19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    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.

  • Prov 6:24-27
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    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.

    27Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

  • Prov 5:2-3
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    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,

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Prov 5:6-10
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    6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.

    7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

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

    9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

    10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

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

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    26Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

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

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

  • Prov 20:16
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    16Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.

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    9You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

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    21For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.

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

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  • Prov 6:20-21
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    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

    21Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

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    33“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

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    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

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    29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

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    7The Beloved to the Maidens: I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields: Do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases!

  • Song 5:9
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    9The Maidens to The Beloved: Why is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful of women? Why is your beloved better than others, that you would admonish us in this manner?

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    72%

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

    13So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,

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    18Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures.

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    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.

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    19the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.