Proverbs 6:24

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

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

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.

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

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?”

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

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.

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.

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;

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 wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

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

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

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.

Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

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.

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 after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

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

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

He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

“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 urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

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.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

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

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