Proverbs 9:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:13-15 : 13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: 14 I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected. 15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
  • Prov 7:25-27 : 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. 26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. 27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. 28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

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  • Prov 9:16
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    16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 9:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

    14Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

  • Prov 9:1-6
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    1Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

    2She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

    3She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

    5Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

    6Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

  • Prov 8:1-4
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    1Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

    2At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

    3Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

    4I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

  • Prov 1:20-21
    2 verses
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    20Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

    21Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 7:5-8
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    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

    6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

    7I saw among the young men one without sense,

    8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Prov 7:25
    74%

    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 2:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

    18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

    19Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

    20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Prov 5:6
    71%

    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • Prov 4:14-15
    2 verses
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    14Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

    15Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

  • Job 21:29
    70%

    29Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?

  • Prov 8:34
    70%

    34Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

  • Prov 7:27
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    27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 1:15
    69%

    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Job 29:7
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    7When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

  • Prov 2:15-16
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    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • Prov 7:22
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    22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

  • Hos 14:9
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    9As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

  • Isa 30:21
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    21And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

  • Prov 8:20
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    20I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

  • Prov 16:17
    67%

    17The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

  • Job 22:15
    67%

    15Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • Prov 2:9
    67%

    9Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

  • Prov 8:9
    67%

    9They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

  • Jer 17:19
    67%

    19This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!