Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.
New American Standard Bible
With her
King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Holman Bible
she lures with her flattering
International Standard Version
She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him.
A Conservative Version
With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.
American Standard Version
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
Amplified
With her many persuasions she caused him to yield;
With her flattering lips she seduced him.
Bible in Basic English
With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
Darby Translation
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
Julia Smith Translation
With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.
King James 2000
With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she seduced him.
Modern King James verseion
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him
NET Bible
She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.
New Heart English Bible
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
The Emphasized Bible
She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness, - with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him:
Webster
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.
World English Bible
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
Youngs Literal Translation
She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
Themes
Harlot (prostitute) » Shamelessness of
Whoredom » Who falls victim to whores
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 7:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Story Of Seduction
20 The bag of money he took in his hand, for [on] the day of the full moon he will come home." 21 She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him. 22 He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
Cross References
Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.
Psalm 12:2
They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
Judges 16:15-17
And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me how your strength is [so] great."
1 Samuel 28:23
But he refused and said, "I will not eat!" However, his servants urged him, and the woman also. So he listened {to what they said}, and he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.
2 Kings 4:8
It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there [was] a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat.
Proverbs 6:24
[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.
Proverbs 7:5
[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.
Luke 14:23
And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and press [them] to come in, so that my house will be filled!
Luke 24:29
And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is [getting] toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent." And he went in to stay with them.
Acts 16:15
And after she was baptized, and her household, she urged [us], saying, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come to my house [and] stay." And she prevailed upon us.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ controls us, [because we] have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result all died.