Proverbs 5:4

Avoid Seduction

³ Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are smoother than oil,
⁴ in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet go down to death;
her steps head straight for Sheol.

Two-Edged Sword

Double-Edged Sword

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Psalm 55:21

His buttery words are smooth,
but war is in his heart.
His words are softer than oil,
but they are drawn swords.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart.

Judges 16:4-6

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Judges 16:15-21

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great!”

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions;
I lie down with those who devour men.
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
their tongues are sharp swords.

Proverbs 6:24-35

They will protect you from an evil woman,
from the flattering tongue of a stranger.

Proverbs 7:22-23

He follows her impulsively
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding toward a trap

Proverbs 9:18

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 23:27-28

For a prostitute is a deep pit,
and a stranger is a narrow well;

Hebrews 12:15-16

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.