Proverbs 7:21

New American Bible - revised edition

She wins him over by repeated urging, with her smooth lips she leads him astray.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:8

One day Elisha came to Shunem, where there was a woman of influence, who pressed him to dine with her. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he would stop there to dine.

Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent me this same proposal, and each time I gave the same reply.

Psalm 12:2

Help, Lord, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Proverbs 5:3

Indeed, the lips of the stranger drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

Proverbs 6:24

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

Proverbs 7:22

He follows her impulsively, like an ox that goes to slaughter; Like a stag that bounds toward the net,

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep you from a stranger, from the foreign woman with her smooth words.

Luke 14:23

The master then ordered the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled.

Luke 24:29

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

Acts 16:15

After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home,” and she prevailed on us. Imprisonment at Philippi.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died.

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.

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused, saying, “I will not eat.” However, when his servants joined the woman in urging him, he listened to their entreaties, got up from the ground, and sat on a couch.