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For the lips of a loose woman[a] drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil,(A)

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  1. 5.3 Heb strange woman

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)

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16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(A)

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  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
    with her smooth talk she compels him.(A)

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21 With persuasive words she led him astray;
    she seduced him with her smooth talk.(A)

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that they may keep you from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.(A)

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  1. 7.5 Heb strange woman
  2. 7.5 Heb alien woman

They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words.(A)

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24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[b](A)

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  1. 6.24 Gk: MT the evil woman
  2. 6.24 Heb alien woman

24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(A)

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21 with speech smoother than butter
    but with a heart set on war,
with words that were softer than oil
    but in fact were drawn swords.(A)

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21 His talk is smooth as butter,(A)
    yet war is in his heart;
his words are more soothing than oil,(B)
    yet they are drawn swords.(C)

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with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[a] and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”(A) So he carried me away in the spirit[b] into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.(B) The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,(C) and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother[c] of whores[d] and of earth’s abominations.”(D) And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.(E)

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  1. 17.2 Or prostitution
  2. 17.3 Or in the Spirit
  3. 17.5 Or Babylon, the great mother
  4. 17.5 Or prostitutes

With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”(A)

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit(B) into a wilderness.(C) There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet(D) beast that was covered with blasphemous names(E) and had seven heads and ten horns.(F) The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls.(G) She held a golden cup(H) in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.(I) The name written on her forehead was a mystery:(J)

babylon the great(K)

the mother of prostitutes(L)

and of the abominations of the earth.

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people,(M) the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

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