Proverbs 23:28
She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey],
And she increases the faithless among men.
Proverbs 7:12
At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,
Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I discovered that [of all irrational sins none has been so destructive in beguiling one away from God as immoral women for] more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is [composed of] snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be taken captive by her [evil].
Numbers 25:1
Israel settled and remained in Shittim, and the people began to play the prostitute with the women of Moab [by being unfaithful to God].
Judges 16:4-22
After this he fell in love with a [Philistine] woman [living] in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Proverbs 2:16-19
To keep you from the immoral woman;
From the seductress with her flattering words,
Proverbs 7:22-27
Suddenly he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter [not knowing the outcome],
Or as one in stocks going to the correction [to be given] to a fool,
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,
And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
Jeremiah 3:2
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods]
Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert,
And you have desecrated the land
With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.
1 Corinthians 10:8
We must not indulge in [nor tolerate] sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell [dead] in a single day!
Revelation 17:1-2
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment and doom of the great
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As for a prey
Increaseth
General references
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As for a prey
To keep you from the immoral woman;
From the seductress with her flattering words,
At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,
Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.
But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,
And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods]
Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert,
And you have desecrated the land
With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
Increaseth
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.
General references
At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,
Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.
Calling to those who pass by,
Who are making their paths straight: