Proverbs 7:21
By her much fair speech she seduced him; By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away.
Noyes 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 hath taken a purse of money with him; At the day of the full moon he will return.”
Cross References
Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood one to another; With flattering lips, with a double heart, do they speak.
Proverbs 6:24They shall guard thee from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the unchaste woman.
Luke 14:23And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Acts 16:15And when she had been baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be a believer in the Lord, come into my house, and abide. 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 →