Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
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Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
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Ecclesiastes 7:27
Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
Ecclesiastes 7:28
For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
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Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 7:24
Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
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Proverbs 5:3
For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Proverbs 2:16
To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Proverbs 2:17
Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
Proverbs 2:18
For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Proverbs 2:19
Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Proverbs 5:8
Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
Proverbs 23:27
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
Proverbs 23:28
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Numbers 5:27
And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.
Proverbs 6:24
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
Proverbs 6:26
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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Proverbs 7:21
With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
Proverbs 7:22
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Proverbs 7:23
Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
Proverbs 7:24
So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;
Proverbs 7:25
Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
Proverbs 7:26
For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
Judges 16:19
And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.
Proverbs 6:32
He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
Proverbs 7:13
So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
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1 Kings 11:1
Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
1 Kings 11:2
The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.
1 Kings 11:3
He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.
1 Kings 11:4
For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
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Genesis 39:12
And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.
Genesis 39:9
So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?
Genesis 39:10
And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.
2 Timothy 2:22
But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
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Ecclesiastes 9:12
Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.
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Exodus 10:7
And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?
1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.
1 Corinthians 7:35
Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.
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Exodus 23:33
Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
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Numbers 25:1
Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
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Numbers 31:16
It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 15:32
Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
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Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 9:9
Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
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Ezekiel 26:5
She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.
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