Proverbs 5:20

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

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

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

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.

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,

because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

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

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

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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.

“ ‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.

“ ‘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.

and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”

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;

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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.”

but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.

Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

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.

The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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.

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

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

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.

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

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

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

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

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

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

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

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

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.