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Proverbs 7:26

TemptationDeath and loss

24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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BSB
For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
KJV
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
WEB
for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
ASV
For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
DARBY
for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
BLB
For many wounded ones she has made fall; and numerous [are] all her slain ones.
ÅB
For mange som har fått ulivssår, har hun fellet, og mangfoldige er de hun har slått ihjel;
OTB
For hun har felt mange ofre; hennes drepte er en stor mengde.
B1930
For mange som har fått ulivssår, har hun fellet, og mangfoldige er de hun har slått ihjel;

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  • Nehemiah 13:26

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

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  • 1 Peter 2:11

    Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:8

    Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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  • Proverbs 6:33

    A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

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  • 1 Kings 11:1–2

    But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

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  • 2 Samuel 3:27

    And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

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  • 2 Corinthians 12:21

    And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

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  • 2 Samuel 12:9–11

    Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

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