"To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;" — Proverbs 2:16

Proverbs 2:16 · KJV

“To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;”

— Proverbs 2:16

Verse 15

Whose ways {are} crooked, and {they} froward in their paths:

Verse 17

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Proverbs 2 — Context

Who rejoice to do evil, {and} delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Whose ways {are} crooked, and {they} froward in their paths:

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.

Cross References

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. {whoso...: Heb. he that is good before God}

Proverbs 23:27

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

Proverbs 22:14

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

Proverbs 7:5-23

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words.

Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. {of the...: or, of the strange tongue}

Nehemiah 13:26-27

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

Genesis 39:3-12

And his master saw that the LORD {was} with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Proverbs 29:5

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.