Proverbs 7:21 - The Scriptures 1998

²¹ With her many words she leads him astray, With her smooth lips she seduces 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

2 Kings 4:8

And it came to be on a day that Elisha went to Shunĕ

Nehemiah 6:4

However, they sent me the same word four times, and I answered them the same word.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood with each other; They speak with flattering lips, a double heart.

Proverbs 5:3

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

Proverbs 6:24

To guard you against an evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:22

He goes after her immediately, Like an ox he goes to the slaughter, And as in chains, a fool to the punishment,

Proverbs 7:5

To guard you against the strange woman, Against the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Luke 14:23

“And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the street corners and hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house is filled.

Luke 24:29

But they urged Him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening, and the day has declined.” And He went in to stay with them.

Acts 16:15

And when she was immersed, and her household, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be believing in the Master, come to my house and stay.” And she urged us.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Messiah compels us, having judged this: that if One died for all, then all died;

Judges 14:17

And she had wept before him the seven days while their feast lasted. And it came to be on the seventh day that he informed her, because she pressed him so much. She then explained the riddle to the sons of her people.

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused and said, “I am not going to eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him. And he listened to their voice. So he rose from the ground and sat on the bed.