Proverbs 6:32
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32 Whoever commits adultery with a woman (A)lacks understanding;
He who does so destroys his own soul.
Proverbs 7:7
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7 And saw among the simple,
I perceived among the [a]youths,
A young man (A)devoid[b] of understanding,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:7 Lit. sons
- Proverbs 7:7 lacking
Hebrews 13:4
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4 (A)Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; (B)but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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Romans 1:22-24
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22 (A)Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the (B)incorruptible (C)God into an image made like [a]corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 (D)Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, (E)to dishonor their bodies (F)among themselves,
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- Romans 1:23 perishable
Jeremiah 5:21
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21 ‘Hear this now, O (A)foolish people,
Without [a]understanding,
Who have eyes and see not,
And who have ears and hear not:
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:21 Lit. heart
Ecclesiastes 7:25-26
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25 (A)I applied my heart to know,
To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things,
To know the wickedness of folly,
Even of foolishness and madness.
26 (B)And I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
[a]He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 Lit. He who is good before God
Proverbs 7:22-23
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22 Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or [a]as a fool to the correction of the [b]stocks,
23 Till an arrow struck his liver.
(A)As a bird hastens to the snare,
He did not know it [c]would cost his life.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 LXX, Syr., Tg. as a dog to bonds; Vg. as a lamb . . . to bonds
- Proverbs 7:22 shackles
- Proverbs 7:23 Lit. is for
Proverbs 2:18-19
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18 For (A)her house [a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
19 None who go to her return,
Nor do they [b]regain the paths of life—
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:18 sinks
- Proverbs 2:19 Lit. reach
Exodus 20:14
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Genesis 41:39
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39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
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Genesis 39:9-10
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9 There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. (A)How then can I do this great wickedness, and (B)sin against God?”
10 So it was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he (C)did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with her.
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Hosea 4:11-12
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The Idolatry of Israel
11 “Harlotry, wine, and new wine (A)enslave the heart.
12 My people ask counsel from their (B)wooden idols,
And their [a]staff informs them.
For (C)the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
And they have played the harlot against their God.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:12 Diviner’s rod
Ezekiel 18:31
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31 (A)Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a (B)new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?
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Jeremiah 5:8
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8 (A)They were like well-fed lusty stallions;
Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
Proverbs 9:16-18
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16 “Whoever(A) is [a]simple, let him turn in here”;
And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
17 “Stolen(B) water is sweet,
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
18 But he does not know that (C)the dead are there,
That her guests are in the depths of [b]hell.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 9:16 naive
- Proverbs 9:18 Or Sheol
Proverbs 9:4
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4 “Whoever(A) is simple, let him turn in here!”
As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
Proverbs 8:36
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36 But he who sins against me (A)wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.”
Proverbs 5:22-23
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22 (A)His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
23 (B)He shall die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Hosea 13:9
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Footnotes
- Hosea 13:9 Lit. it or he destroyed you
- Hosea 13:9 Lit. in your help
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