Proverbs 2:16-19
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16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,(A)
from a stranger[a] with her flattering talk,(B)
17 who abandons the companion of her youth(C)
and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 for her house sinks down to death
and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.(D)
19 None return who go to her;
none reach the paths of life.(E)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:16 Or foreign woman
Proverbs 7:5
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5 She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a stranger with her flattering talk.(A)
Proverbs 7:21
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21 She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering[a] talk.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:21 Lit smooth
Proverbs 7:27
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27 Her house is the road to Sheol,
descending to the chambers of death.(A)
Proverbs 23:27-28
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27 For a prostitute is a deep pit,(A)
and a stranger is a narrow well;
28 indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber(B)
and increases those among men who are unfaithful.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
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26 And I find more bitter than death(A) the woman who is a trap,(B) her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
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