Proverbs 5:4

Avoid Seduction

³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. ⁴ But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a double-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol.

Two-Edged Sword

Double-Edged Sword

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I discovered for myself a bitterness that surpasses that of death: the woman whose heart is full of snares and nets, whose hands are chains of bondage. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the transgressor will be trapped by her.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

Judges 16:4-6

After this incident, he loved a woman in Sorek Valley whose name was Delilah.

Judges 16:15-21

Some time later, she asked him, "How can you keep saying "I love you!' when your heart isn't with me? These three times you've lied to me and haven't told me where your great strength lies."

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

Proverbs 6:24-35

to protect you from the evil woman, from the words of the seductive woman.

Proverbs 7:22-23

All of a sudden he follows her like an ox fit for slaughter or like a fool fit for a trap

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not realize that the dead lurk there, and her invited guests wind up in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 23:27-28

because a prostitute is a deep pit, and the adulterous woman a narrow well.

Hebrews 12:15-16

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up and causes you trouble, or many of you will become defiled.