Proverbs 22:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.”
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“The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A deep pit <FI>is<Fi> the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 22:14 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
- Judges 16:20Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
- Nehemiah 13:26Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 6:24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
- Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
- Proverbs 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
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