Proverbs 23:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

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²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch; And a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.

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²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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²⁷ A prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a narrow well.

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²⁷ For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.

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The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or to be with her.

calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,