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Proverbs 7:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. "
Proverbs 7:21
Verse in Context
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19 For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
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Proverbs 7:1
"My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you."
Proverbs 7:2
"Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye."
Proverbs 7:3
"Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart."
Proverbs 7:4
"Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,"
Proverbs 7:5
"that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words."
Proverbs 7:6
"For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice."
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