Devine Scripture

Proverbs 7:21

Proverbs chapter 7 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

Context

v.20He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.

v.21This passage

v.22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or asone infetters to the correction of the fool;

Cross references

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

  • Psalms 12:2

    They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

  • Luke 24:29

    And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in to abide with them.

  • Acts 16:15

    And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

  • 2 Kings 4:8

    And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

  • Judges 16:15

    And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

  • Proverbs 6:24

    To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.