Proverbs 7:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, With the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ With much justifying and enticing argument she persuades him, with the allurements of her lips she leads him [to overcome his conscience and his fears] and forces him along.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

Common English Bible

²¹ She seduces him with all her talk. She entices him with her flattery.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.

Proverbs 7:21 Cross References

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

2 Kings 4:8

One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.

Luke 24:29

But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.

Psalm 12:2

They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Acts 16:15

When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.

Luke 14:23

Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.

1 Samuel 28:23

He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.

Proverbs 7:22

Right away he follows her and goes like an ox to the slaughter or bounds like a stag toward the trap

Judges 14:17

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and because she nagged him, on the seventh day he told her. Then she explained the riddle to her people.

Nehemiah 6:4

They sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.