20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’ 21 Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: 22 a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food, 23 an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
Proverbs 30:20–23
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Ezekiel 16:31–33
31 But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. 32 You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband! 33 Men give gif…
Proverbs 6:28–30
28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? 29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished. 30 Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
Sirach 23:21–23
21 This man will be punished in the streets of the city. He will be seized where he least expects it. (WEB) 22 So also is a wife who leaves her husband, and produces an heir by another man. (WEB) 23 For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High. Second, she trespassed… (WEB)
Ezekiel 23:1–3
1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother, 3 and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
Sirach 19:22–24
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Sirach 41:21–23
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Proverbs 30:14–16
14 there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men. 15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enou…
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