Proverbs 7:21
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
World English Bible British
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 has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
Cross References
Judges 16:15She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
2 Kings 4:8One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
Psalms 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbour. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Proverbs 6:24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
Luke 14:23“The lord 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 household were baptised, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So 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 →