Proverbs 7:21

A Story Of Seduction

²⁰ He has taken a bag of money with him,
At the full moon he will come home.”
²¹ With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.
²² Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,

Flattering Lips

Persuasive Words

Turn Aside

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

Judges 16:15-17

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is.”

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to them. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

2 Kings 4:8

Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food.

Proverbs 6:24

To keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep you from an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Luke 14:23

And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:29

But they urged Him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over.” So He went in to stay with them.

Acts 16:15

And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;