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Proverbs 31:3

WEB

3Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

KJV

3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

BSB

3Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

FBV

3Don't waste your strength sleeping[+] with women, those that bring down kings.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 17:17

17He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.


Nehemiah 13:26

26Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.


Proverbs 7:26-27

26for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. 27Her house is the way to Sheol,[+] going down to the rooms of death.


Proverbs 5:9-11

9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; 10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house. 11You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,


1 Kings 11:1

1Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,


Hosea 4:11

11Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.