Proverbs 23:27

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

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

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

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

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.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

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

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

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.

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

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

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.

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

They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

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

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

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.”

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.”

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

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.

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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,

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

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

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

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

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

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

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

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

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

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

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

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

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

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

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

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.

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.