Proverbs 23:28
“She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.”
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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Cross-References
“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.”
“And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.”
“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:”
“But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.”
“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”