Proverbs 23:28

New International Reader's Version

She hides and waits like a thief. She causes many men to sin.

Cross References

Genesis 39:10

She spoke to Joseph day after day. But he told her he wouldn’t go to bed with her. He didn’t even want to be with her.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a woman who commits adultery is like a deep pit. Any man the Lord is angry with falls into it.

Proverbs 6:26

A prostitute can be bought for only a loaf of bread. But another man’s wife hunts your very life.

Proverbs 7:10

A woman came out to meet him. She was dressed like a prostitute and had a clever plan.

Proverbs 7:12

Sometimes she’s in the streets. Sometimes she’s at other places. At every corner she waits.

Proverbs 9:18

But they don’t know that dead people are there. They don’t know that her guests are deep in the place of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

A woman who hunts a man down is more painful than death. Her heart is like a trap. Her hands are like chains. A man who pleases God will try to get away from her. But she will trap a sinner.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Look up at the bare hilltops. Is there any place where you have not worshiped other gods? You have been unfaithful to me like a wife committing adultery. By the side of the road you sat waiting for lovers. You sat there like someone who wanders in the desert. You have made the land impure. You are like a sinful prostitute.

Hosea 4:11

with prostitutes. They drink old wine and fresh wine. Their drinking has destroyed their ability to understand.

Numbers 25:1

Israel was staying in Shittim. The men of Israel began to commit sexual sins with the women of Moab.

1 Corinthians 10:8

We should not commit sexual sins, as some of them did. In one day 23,000 of them died.