Proverbs 23:27

World English Bible (2000)

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

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  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

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  • 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

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

  • 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 2:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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

    17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

    18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

  • 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

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

    5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

    6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

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    31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

    33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

    34 You are different from [other] women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.

    35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

  • 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

    11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

    12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

    26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

    27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

  • 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

  • 8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

  • 22 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

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    19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.

    20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • 13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

    14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

  • 26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • 23 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

    22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

    23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

  • 29 "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • 2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

  • 17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

  • 16 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

  • 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

  • 4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

  • 8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

  • 5 Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

  • 15 A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike: