Ecclesiastes 7:26

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And I find more bitter than death  the woman who is a trap:  her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit; a man cursed by the  Lord will fall into it.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;  but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Proverbs 2:16

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,

Proverbs 9:18

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh’s officials asked him, ‘How long must this man be a snare  to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Don’t you realise yet that Egypt is devastated? ’

Proverbs 6:23

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.

Proverbs 6:24

They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

‘Look,’ says the Teacher, ‘I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,

Genesis 19:35

That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

Genesis 39:9

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God? ’