Proverbs 5:4

In the end she is bitter as wormwood and sharp as a sword. The sweetness of illicit sin gives way to bitterness and ruin.

Cross-references · 11

• Eccl 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.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Ps 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Prov 9:18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
• Judg 16:15–21“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
• Heb 12:15–16See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
• Judg 16:4–6Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
• Prov 7:22–23He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
• Prov 23:27–28For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
• Prov 6:24–35to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

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