Proverbs 7:21

Her persuasive, flattering words finally lead him astray. Smooth speech overcomes the naive youth's resistance.

Cross-references · 11

• Prov 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
• Prov 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
• 2 Kgs 4:8And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
• Luke 24:29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
• Ps 12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
• Prov 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
• Judg 16:15–17And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
• 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• Acts 16:15And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
• Luke 14:23And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
• 1 Sam 28:23But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

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