Proverbs 7:21
With much talk she turned him; 1 with her smooth lips she misled him. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 a bag of money with him; 1 he will return on the day of the full moon.” 1
Cross References
Judges 16:15She said to him, “How can you say, 'I love you,' when you do not share your secrets with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me how you have such great strength.”
2 Kings 4:8One day Elisha walked to Shunem where an important woman lived; she urged him to eat food with her. So as often as Elisha passed by, he would stop there to eat.
Psalms 12:2Everyone says empty words to his neighbor; 1 everyone speaks with flattering lips and a double heart. 1
Proverbs 6:24It keeps you from the immoral woman, 1 from the smooth words of an immoral woman. 1
Luke 14:23The master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Acts 16:15When she and her house were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay in 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 →