Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.Her mouth is smoother than oil,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
In Context
2that you may maintain discretion,that your lips may preserve knowledge.
4But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16To deliver you from the strange woman,even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the strange woman,from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit:he who is under the Lord's wrath will fall into it.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →