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?
Proverbs 23:27–29
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Proverbs 6:25–27
25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. 26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. 27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs 22:13–15
13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!” 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it. 15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it…
Proverbs 2:17–19
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.
Proverbs 7:25–27
25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. 26 For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. 27 Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 5:3–5
3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
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Ecclesiastes 7:25–27
25 I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness. 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are c…
Proverbs 23:32–34
32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. 34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
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