Ecclesiastes 7:26
"And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her."
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- Proverbs 22:14
"The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 5:3
"For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 2:16
"To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:26
"For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 2:18
"For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 7:21
"With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 23:27
"For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 9:18
"But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell."
Read in chapter → - Judges 16:18
"And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand."
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