Proverbs 7:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.

Proverbs 7:21 Cross References

2 Kings 4:8

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

Nehemiah 6:4

And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Psalm 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Proverbs 7:22

He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as fetters to the correction of the fool;

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Luke 14:23

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:29

And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in to abide with them.

Acts 16:15

And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

Judges 14:17

And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.