Proverbs 22:14 Cross References - ACV

¹⁴ The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.

¹⁹ And LORD saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

²⁰ And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grinding in the prison-house.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

¹⁶ to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead; ¹⁹ none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),

³ For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. ⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol, ⁶ so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, and she does not know. ⁷ Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel, ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of an alien, ¹¹ and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. ¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation. ¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets? ¹⁷ Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. ²⁰ For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of LORD, and he makes level all his paths. ²² His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

²⁴ to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue. ²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For the price of a harlot is as much as a piece of bread, but the adulteress hunts for the precious life. ²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸ Or can a man walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? ²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.

⁵ that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words. ⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice, ⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding ⁸ passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house, ⁹ in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. ¹⁰ And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart. ¹¹ She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house. ¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lies in wait at every corner. ¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him, ¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day. ¹⁵ Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love. ¹⁹ For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey. ²⁰ He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon. ²¹ With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along. ²² He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life. ²⁴ Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths. ²⁶ For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host. ²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, and an interloping woman is a narrow pit.

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.