Proverbs 23:28

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Summary

Proverbs 23:28

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

As for a prey

Jeremiah 3:2

Increaseth

General references

Proverbs 7:12

Proverbs 9:15

Bible References

As for a prey

To deliver you from the immoral woman, even from the seductress who flatters with her words;

Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)

But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

The mouth of immoral women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are fetters: whosoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not been lain with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your harlotries and with your wickedness.

Increaseth

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.

Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto you the judgment of the great harlot that sits upon many waters:

General references

Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)

To call those who pass by who go right on their ways: