Proverbs 5:3

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

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

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

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

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

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

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

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

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?

After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

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

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

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

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

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.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

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.

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.

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.

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

The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”

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.”

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’ ”

But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

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;

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

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

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

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

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

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

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You said it.”

When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

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.”