Proverbs 5:4
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4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:26
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26 I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.(A)
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Hebrews 4:12
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12 Indeed, the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.(A)
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Psalm 57:4
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4 I lie down among lions
that greedily devour[a] human prey;
their teeth are spears and arrows,
their tongues sharp swords.(A)
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- 57.4 Cn: Heb are aflame for
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)
Proverbs 9:18
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- 9.18 Heb shades
Hebrews 12:15-16
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15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.(A) 16 See to it that no one becomes an immoral and godless person, as Esau was, who sold his birthright for a single meal.(B)
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Proverbs 23:27-28
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27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;
an adulteress[a] is a narrow well.(A)
28 She lies in wait like a robber
and increases the number of the faithless.(B)
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- 23.27 Heb alien woman
Proverbs 7:22-23
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22 Right away he follows her
and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap[a]
23 until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
not knowing that it will cost him his life.(A)
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- 7.22 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Proverbs 6:24-35
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24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[b](A)
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,(B)
26 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[c]
but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.(C)
27 Can fire be carried in the bosom
without burning one’s clothes?
28 Or can one walk on hot coals
without scorching the feet?
29 So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.(D)
30 Thieves are not despised who steal only
to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
31 Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold;
they will forfeit all the goods of their house.(E)
32 But he who commits adultery has no sense;
he who does it destroys himself.(F)
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
and he will show no restraint when he takes revenge.(G)
35 He will accept no compensation
and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.
Judges 16:15-21
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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)
18 When Delilah realized that he had told her his whole secret, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “This time come up, for he has told his whole secret to me.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands. 19 She let him fall asleep on her lap, and she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. He began to weaken,[a] and his strength left him.(C) 20 Then she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” When he awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.(D) 21 So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.
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- 16.19 Gk: Heb She began to torment him
Judges 16:4-6
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4 After this he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 5 The lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Coax him, and find out what makes his strength so great and how we may overpower him, so that we may bind him in order to subdue him, and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”(A) 6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes your strength so great and how you could be bound, so that one could subdue you.”
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