Proverbs 2:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words,

Cross References

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the foreign woman is a deep pit; whoever incurs the Lord’s anger will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:27

For the harlot is a deep pit, and the foreign woman a narrow well;

Proverbs 26:28

The lying tongue is its owner’s enemy, and the flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 29:5

Those who speak flattery to their neighbor cast a net at their feet.

Proverbs 6:24

Keeping you from another’s wife, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

More bitter than death I find the woman who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.

Judges 14:17

But she wept beside him during the seven days the feast lasted, and on the seventh day, he told her the answer, because she pressed him, and she explained the riddle to her people.