Verse 20

And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words; 17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. 18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.