Proverbs 7:21

World English Bible (2000)

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

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  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
  • Judg 16:15-17 : 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."
  • 1 Sam 28:23 : 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  • Luke 14:23 : 23 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
  • Luke 24:29 : 29 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.
  • Acts 16:15 : 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:22-23
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    84%

    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.

  • Prov 7:10-13
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

    13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

  • Prov 2:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    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 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."

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

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

  • 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 5:3-4
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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.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    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.

  • 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 5:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 16 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

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

  • 14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

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    42 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.

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

  • 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

  • 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.

  • 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

  • 4 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

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

  • 14 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

  • 15 What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • 21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

  • 16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

  • 17 He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.

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

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

  • 7 She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

  • 16 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.

  • 10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

  • 3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

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