Proverbs 7:5

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

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

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

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

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

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

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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,

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.

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.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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?

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?

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

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

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

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

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

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.

“If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

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.”

“ ‘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;

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.”

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

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.”

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.

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

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

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,

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,

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.