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

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Footnotes

  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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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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Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son

One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.(A)

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The Shunammite’s Son Restored to Life

One day Elisha went to Shunem.(A) And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat.

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29 But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.

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29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

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They utter lies to each other;
    with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.(A)

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Everyone lies(A) to their neighbor;
    they flatter with their lips
    but harbor deception in their hearts.(B)

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14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.(A)

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14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.(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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Footnotes

  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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15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me three times now and have not told me what makes your strength so great.”(A) 16 Finally, after she had nagged him with her words day after day and pestered him, he was tired to death. 17 So he told her his whole secret and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, then my strength would leave me; I would become weak and be like anyone else.”(B)

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15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’(A) when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time(B) you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.(C) 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.

17 So he told her everything.(D) “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite(E) dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”

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15 When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.(A)

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15 When she and the members of her household(A) were baptized,(B) she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

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23 Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.

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23 “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

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23 He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.(A)

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23 He refused(A) and said, “I will not eat.”

But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.

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