Proverbs 22:14 Cross References - ISV

¹⁴ The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; a man experiencing the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.

¹⁹ The LORD’s ResponseThe LORD saw it and became jealous, provoked by his sons and daughters.

²⁰ When she cried out, “The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!” he woke from his sleep and told himself, “I’ll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had abandoned him.
²¹ Samson is Imprisoned by the PhilistinesThen the Philistines grabbed him, gouged out his eyes, brought him down to Gaza, tied him up in bronze chains, and made him grind grain in their prison.

²⁶ Didn’t Solomon, king of Israel, sin by doing these things, even though among many nations there was no king like him who was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel? Even so, foreign women caused him to sin.

¹² So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.

¹⁶ delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words, ¹⁷ someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead. ¹⁹ None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.

³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. ⁴ But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a double-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol. ⁶ You aren’t thinking about where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize it. ⁷ Now, children, listen to me. Don’t turn away from what I am saying. ⁸ Keep far away from her, and don’t go near the entrance to her house, ⁹ so that you don’t give your honor to others, and waste your best years; ¹⁰ so that strangers don’t enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won’t end up the possession of foreigners. ¹¹ You will cry out in anguish when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed, ¹² and you will say, “How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction! ¹³ I did not obey my teachers and did not listen to my instructors. ¹⁴ Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation.”
¹⁵ The Delights of Marital FaithfulnessDrink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well. ¹⁶ Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street? ¹⁷ They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you. ¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love. ²⁰ Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? ²¹ Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD’s presence, and he weighs all his paths. ²² The wicked person’s iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. ²³ He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly.

²⁴ to protect you from the evil woman, from the words of the seductive woman. ²⁵ Do not focus on her beauty in your mind, nor allow her to take you prisoner with her flirting eyes, ²⁶ because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man’s precious life. ²⁷ Can a man scoop fire into his bosom without burning his clothes? ²⁸ Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? ²⁹ So also is it with someone who has sex with his neighbor’s wife; anyone touching her will not remain unpunished.

⁵ so they can keep you from an adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her seductive words.
⁶ A Father’s WarningFor from a window in my house I peered through the lattice work, ⁷ and I noticed among the naïve— that is, I discerned among the youths— a senseless young man. ⁸ Proceeding down the street near her corner, he makes his way toward her house ⁹ at twilight, during the evening, even during the darkest part of the night. ¹⁰ Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him. ¹¹ She is brazen and defiant— her feet don’t remain at home. ¹² Now she is in the street, now in the plazas, she lurks near every corner. ¹³ So she grabs hold of him and kisses him, with a brazen face she speaks to him, ¹⁴ “I have given my peace offerings, and today I fulfilled my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore, I’ve come out to meet you, I’ve looked just for you, and I found you! ¹⁶ I’ve decorated my bed with new coverings— embroidered linen from Egypt. ¹⁷ I’ve perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let’s make love until dawn; let’s comfort ourselves with love, ¹⁹ because my husband isn’t home. He left on a long trip. ²⁰ He took a fist full of cash and he’ll return home in a month.” ²¹ She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him. ²² All of a sudden he follows her like an ox fit for slaughter or like a fool fit for a trap ²³ until an arrow pierces his liver. As a bird darts into a snare, he doesn’t realize his fatal decision. ²⁴ So listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to what I have to say. ²⁵ Don’t be led astray by her lifestyle, and don’t imitate her behavior. ²⁶ For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain. ²⁷ Her house leads to Sheol, descending to death’s catacombs.

²⁷ because a prostitute is a deep pit, and the adulterous woman a narrow well.

²⁶ I discovered for myself a bitterness that surpasses that of death: the woman whose heart is full of snares and nets, whose hands are chains of bondage. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the transgressor will be trapped by her.