Proverbs 6:32
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32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
Proverbs 7:7
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7 and I have seen among (A)the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man (B)lacking sense,
Hebrews 13:4
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4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.
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Romans 1:22-24
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22 (A)Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and (B)exchanged the glory of (C)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore (D)God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to (E)the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
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Jeremiah 5:21
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21 “Hear this, (A)O foolish and senseless people,
(B)who have eyes, but see not,
who have ears, but hear not.
Ecclesiastes 7:25-26
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25 (A)I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more (B)bitter than death: (C)the woman whose heart is (D)snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but (E)the sinner is taken by her.
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Proverbs 7:22-23
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22 All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast[a]
23 till an arrow pierces its liver;
as (A)a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as a chain to discipline a fool
Proverbs 2:18-19
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18 (A)for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;[a]
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim
Exodus 20:14
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14 (A)“You shall not commit adultery.
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Genesis 41:39
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39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
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Genesis 39:9-10
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9 He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and (A)sin against God?” 10 And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he (B)would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
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Hosea 4:11-12
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11 whoredom, wine, and new wine,
which (A)take away the understanding.
12 My people (B)inquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For (C)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.
Ezekiel 18:31
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31 (A)Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and (B)make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! (C)Why will you die, O house of Israel?
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Jeremiah 5:8
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Proverbs 9:16-18
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16 (A)“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
And to him who lacks sense she says,
17 (B)“Stolen water is sweet,
and (C)bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
18 But he does not know (D)that the dead[a] are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 9:18 Hebrew Rephaim
Proverbs 9:4
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Proverbs 8:36
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Proverbs 5:22-23
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22 The (A)iniquities of the wicked (B)ensnare him,
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
23 (C)He dies for lack of discipline,
and because of his great folly he is (D)led astray.
Hosea 13:9
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Footnotes
- Hosea 13:9 Or I will destroy
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