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 7:26I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 55:21His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Prov 9:18But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
• Judg 16:15–21She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
• Heb 12:15–16looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• Judg 16:4–6It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
• Prov 7:22–23He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
• Prov 23:27–28For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
• Prov 6:24–35to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

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