Proverbs 7:21

A Story Of Seduction

²⁰ He took a bag of money with him
and will come home at the time of the full moon.”
²¹ She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.
²² He follows her impulsively
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding toward a trap

Flattering Lips

Persuasive Words

Turn Aside

Proverbs 5:3

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are smoother than oil,

Psalm 12:2

They lie to one another;
they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

Judges 16:15-17

“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!”

1 Samuel 28:23

He refused, saying, “I won’t eat,” but when his servants and the woman urged him, he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed.

2 Kings 4:8

One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.

Proverbs 6:24

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

Proverbs 7:5

She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a stranger with her flattering talk.

Luke 14:23

“Then the master told the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and lanes and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:29

But they urged Him: “Stay with us, because it’s almost evening, and now the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.

Acts 16:15

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If One died for all, then all died.