Proverbs 23:28

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:12 : 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 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.
  • Jer 3:2 : 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.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
  • 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
  • Rev 17:1-2 : 1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."
  • Prov 7:22-27 : 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. 24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. 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.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
  • Num 25:1 : 1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
  • Judg 16:4-9 : 4 It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred [pieces] of silver." 6 Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you." 7 Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man." 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. 10 Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound." 11 He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man." 12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread. 13 Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web." 14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web. 15 She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies." 16 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death. 17 He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man." 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand. 19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him. 21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison. 22 However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 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. 19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:27
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    27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

  • Prov 7:10-12
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    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.

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

    27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • 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.

  • Prov 1:16-18
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    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

    17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • Prov 7:21-22
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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.

  • Prov 22:14
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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.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    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.

  • Prov 5:3-5
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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.

  • Prov 1:11
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    11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Prov 2:18
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    18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

  • Ezek 23:14
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    14 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

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

  • Job 39:29-30
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    29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

    30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

  • Prov 2:15-16
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    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;

  • Prov 9:14
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    14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

  • Prov 6:24
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    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

  • Job 18:10
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    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

  • Ezek 23:43
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    43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

  • Prov 7:5
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    5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 23:29
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    29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

  • Prov 16:29
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    29 A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

  • Prov 28:28
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    28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

  • Prov 9:3
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    3 She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

  • Prov 21:18
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    18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Hos 6:9
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    9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

  • Ezek 22:25
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    25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.

  • Jer 6:7
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    7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

  • Job 15:35
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    35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."