Proverbs 7:21
Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.
Bible (Bishops')
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 hath taken the bagge of money with hym, and wyll returne at the appointed solempne feast.
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she sayde vnto him agayne: How canst thou saye I loue thee, when thyne heart is not with me? Thou hast mocked me this three tymes, and hast not tolde me wherin thy great strength lyeth.
Proverbs 6:24That they may kepe thee from the euyll woman, and from the flattering tongue of the straunge woman.
Luke 14:23And the Lorde sayde to the seruaunt: Go out into the hye wayes & hedges, and compell them to come in, that my house may be fylled.
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 →