Proverbs 7:26 {27}
Good News Translation
She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count.

New Revised Standard Version
For many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims.

Contemporary English Version
Such a woman has caused the downfall and destruction of a lot of men.

New American Bible
For many are those she has struck down dead, numerous, those she has slain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.

Proverbs 6:33 Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,

Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison made him grind.

2 Samuel 3:6-8,27 Now while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of Saul. . . .

2 Samuel 12:9-11 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. . . .

1 Kings 11:1,2 And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites: . . .

Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

2 Corinthians 12:21 Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
25For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her. 26Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.27Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?…
Cross References
Proverbs 9:18
A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

Proverbs 7:27
Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?

Proverbs 7:25
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