Proverbs 5:3
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- 5.3 Heb strange woman
Proverbs 2:16
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Proverbs 7:21
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21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with her smooth talk she compels him.(A)
Proverbs 7:5
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Proverbs 6:24
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Psalm 55:21
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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)
Revelation 17:2-6
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2 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) 3 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) 4 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) 5 and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother[c] of whores[d] and of earth’s abominations.”(D) 6 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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