Proverbs 2:16

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Proverbs 2:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

15 whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

18 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

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Proverbs 5:3

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 5:4

in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Proverbs 5:6

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

Proverbs 5:7

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:9

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 5:14

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:16

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Proverbs 5:18

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

Proverbs 5:19

A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Proverbs 5:20

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:24

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Proverbs 7:6

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.

Proverbs 7:7

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

Proverbs 7:8

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

Proverbs 7:9

at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

Proverbs 7:10

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

Proverbs 7:11

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

Proverbs 7:12

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

Proverbs 7:13

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

Proverbs 7:14

“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

Proverbs 7:15

So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

Proverbs 7:16

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

Proverbs 7:17

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Proverbs 7:18

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

Proverbs 7:19

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

Proverbs 7:20

He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”

Proverbs 7:21

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

Proverbs 7:22

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:27

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Genesis 39:3

When his master saw that the LORD was with him and made him prosper in all he did,

Genesis 39:4

Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.

Genesis 39:5

From the time that he put Joseph in charge of his household and all he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household on account of him. The LORD’s blessing was on everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.

Genesis 39:6

So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

Genesis 39:7

and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

Genesis 39:8

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Genesis 39:9

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Genesis 39:10

Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

Genesis 39:11

One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.

Genesis 39:12

She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Nehemiah 13:27

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.