Proverbs 31:3

World English Bible (2000)

Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Didn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
  • Prov 5:9-9 : 9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house. 11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
  • Prov 7:26-27 : 26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

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  • Prov 31:4-5
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    4It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'

    5lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

  • Prov 5:8-10
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    8Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

    9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

    10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

  • Prov 31:1-2
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    1The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.

    2"Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

    31Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

  • Prov 5:20
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    20For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Prov 7:5
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    5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 23:26
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    26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

  • Prov 11:16
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    16A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12Now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'

  • Prov 25:6
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    6Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

  • Prov 2:16
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    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

  • Deut 17:17
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    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

  • Prov 4:14-15
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    14Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

    15Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

  • Job 31:10
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    10then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

  • Prov 5:17
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    17Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

  • Prov 29:3
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    3Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

  • Prov 3:21
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    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Lev 19:29
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    29"'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Isa 3:12
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    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Ps 33:16
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    16There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

  • Job 36:19
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    19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • Prov 31:17
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    17She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

  • Prov 22:28
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    28Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

  • Prov 3:31
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    31Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

  • Ps 146:3
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    3Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

  • Prov 2:19
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    19None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

  • Jer 16:2
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    2You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.