Proverbs 5:3

WEB

³For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

KJV

³¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

BSB

³Though the lips of the forbidden woman ^[+] drip honey and her speech ^[+] is smoother than oil,

FBV

³^[+] For the lips of an immoral woman may taste as sweet as honey, the kisses of her mouth may be as smooth as oil,

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Extra References

Proverbs 2:16

¹⁶to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 6:24

²⁴to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Psalms 55:21

²¹His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Proverbs 7:21

²¹With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Proverbs 7:5

⁵that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

²with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.” ³He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. ⁵And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” ⁶I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.