Proverbs 22:14

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

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

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

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

Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

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.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.

Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.

You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

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

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

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

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

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

So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

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?

So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

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

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”

He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.