Proverbs 2:18

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Proverbs 2:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

20 So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

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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 6:26

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 6:28

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Proverbs 6:30

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

Proverbs 6:31

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 6:33

Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Proverbs 6:35

He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

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 7:24

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 7:25

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Proverbs 7:26

For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 5:19

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

Galatians 5:20

idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

Galatians 5:21

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:5

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.