Proverbs 9:14

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

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

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 she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

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.

The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

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

She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

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,

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

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

passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

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

On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

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

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

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

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.

in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

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

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.

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

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.