Proverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
In Context
20He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she said to him, How can thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou have mocked me these three times, and have not told me with what thy great strength lays.
2 Kings 4:8And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem where there was a prominent woman. And she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by he turned in there to eat bread.
Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.
Proverbs 6:24to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.
Luke 14:23And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the roads and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Acts 16:15And when she was immersed, and her household, she urged us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, after coming into my house, remain. And she constrained us.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →