Proverbs 23:28
Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
BSB
ASV
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
KJV
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey,.... At the door of her house, in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make a prey of their virtue and of their money.
It is like a deep ditch and a narrow pit, which it is almost impossible to get out of; and therefore it is wisdom to keep far enough from the brink of it. Take heed of making any approaches towards this sin, because it is so hard to make a retreat from it, conscience, which should head the retreat, being debauched by it, and divine grace forfeited.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
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While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
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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…
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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.
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
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Proverbs 22:14The 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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And 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…
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Hosea 4:11Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.