Proverbs 23:28

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What does Proverbs 23:28 mean?

Proverbs 23:28 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 23:28

• Ecclesiastes 7:26

  And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

• Proverbs 7:12

  Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

• 1 Corinthians 10:8

  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

• Hosea 4:11

  Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

• Proverbs 22:14

  The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.

• Revelation 17:1-2

  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

• Jeremiah 3:2

  Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

• Proverbs 2:16-19

  To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

• Proverbs 7:22-27

  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. …

• Judges 16:4-22

  And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. …

• Proverbs 9:18

  But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

• Numbers 25:1

  And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

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Context

• Proverbs 23:27

  For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

• Proverbs 23:28

  She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

• Proverbs 23:29

  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

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