Proverbs 23:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.

Cross References

Genesis 39:10

And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or to be with her.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 6:26

for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.

Proverbs 7:10

Then a woman comes toward him decked out like a prostitute, with hidden intent.

Proverbs 7:12

now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Jeremiah 3:2

Look up to the bare heights and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitutions and wickedness.

Hosea 4:11

prostitution. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Numbers 25:1

While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

1 Corinthians 10:8

We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.