Proverbs 5:3

Proverbs chapter 5 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

King James Version · 1611

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

American Standard Version · 1901

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

v.2That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.

v.3This passage

v.4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
Psalms 55:21
His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.
Proverbs 6:24
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.
Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.