Proverbs 23:28

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Proverbs 23:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible

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?

30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

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

Proverbs 2:16

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

Proverbs 2:17

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

Proverbs 2:18

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

Proverbs 2:19

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

Proverbs 7:12

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

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.

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.

Judges 16:4

Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Judges 16:5

The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

Judges 16:6

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Judges 16:7

Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

Judges 16:8

So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

Judges 16:9

While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

Judges 16:10

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

Judges 16:11

He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

Judges 16:12

So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

Judges 16:13

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man. ”

Judges 16:14

So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

Judges 16:15

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

Judges 16:16

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

Judges 16:17

Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

Judges 16:18

When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.

Judges 16:19

And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.

Judges 16:20

Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

Judges 16:21

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

Judges 16:22

However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

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.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Numbers 25:1

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,

Hosea 4:11

Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

1 Corinthians 10:8

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

Revelation 17:2

The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”