Proverbs 11:22

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Proverbs 11:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.

21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

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

23 The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.

24 One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

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Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Ezekiel 16:15

But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.

Ezekiel 16:16

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

Ezekiel 16:17

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

Ezekiel 16:18

You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.

Ezekiel 16:19

And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 16:20

You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

Ezekiel 16:21

You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.

Ezekiel 16:22

And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

Nahum 3:4

because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

Nahum 3:5

“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

Nahum 3:6

I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

1 Peter 3:3

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

1 Peter 3:4

but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

2 Peter 2:22

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

Proverbs 7:10

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Proverbs 9:13

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.