Ezra 10:44

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

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

Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,

They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.

The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.

Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.

But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.