Bible Verses About Women: Subtle and deceitful

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”