Proverbs 5:3
For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
In Context
2So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Proverbs 7:5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Revelation 17:2With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →