Proverbs 7:21
With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
Majority Standard Bible
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 took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”
22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
Cross References
Judges 16:15“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
2 Kings 4:8One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
Proverbs 6:24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Luke 14:23So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
Acts 16:15And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded 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 →