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Prov. 2:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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To deliver thee from thez strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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Prov. 5:20• ²⁰And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:20)

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Prov. 5:3‑20• ³For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
⁶Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
⁷Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
⁸Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
⁹Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
¹¹And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
¹³And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
¹⁴I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
¹⁶Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
¹⁹Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
²⁰And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:3‑20)

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Prov. 6:24• ²⁴To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. (Prov. 6:24)

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Prov. 7:5‑23• ⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
⁶For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
⁷And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
⁸Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
⁹In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
¹⁰And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtile of heart.
¹¹(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
¹²Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
¹³So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
¹⁴I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
¹⁵Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
¹⁶I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
¹⁷I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
¹⁸Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
¹⁹For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
²⁰He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
²¹With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
²²He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
²³Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. (Prov. 7:5‑23)

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Prov. 22:14• ¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. (Prov. 22:14)

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Prov. 23:27• ²⁷For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. (Prov. 23:27)

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Gen. 39:3‑12• ³And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
⁴And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
⁵And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
⁶And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favored.
⁷And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
⁸But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
⁹There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
¹⁰And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
¹¹And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
¹²And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. (Gen. 39:3‑12)

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Neh. 13:26‑27• ²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
²⁷Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? (Neh. 13:26‑27)

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Eccl. 7:26• ²⁶And 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. (Eccl. 7:26)

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Prov. 7:21• ²¹With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. (Prov. 7:21)

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Prov. 29:5• ⁵A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. (Prov. 29:5)

• She is the ensnaring enemy of morality and virtue, who today, as in Solomon’s time, pursues her nefarious traffic in the bodies and souls of the young and unwary. Forsaking the guide of her youth, forgetting the covenant of her God, she gives herself up to impure pleasures and soul-destroying lusts. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

• But having considered all this, is there not another meaning also to be taken from these many warnings concerning the strange woman? In a secondary sense it seems evident that as in the evil man we have set forth independency of God-rationalism run riot; so in the strange woman we see false religion as eventually to be headed up in Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations that be upon the face of the earth. How devious are her ways! How subtle and deceptive her solicitations! (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

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To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;