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Proverbs 23:27

Proverbs 23:27 is verse 27 of Proverbs chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

Or a foreign woman or a wayward wife

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

Proverbs 23:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

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

28 Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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.