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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION I: Immoral/Promiscuous Women
SECTION II: Gynocentric Social Order/Feminism
SECTION III: Her Nature/Hypergamy
SECTION IV: Marriage/Contentious Women
SECTION V: Know Your Role, Ladies
SECTION X: Wisdom & Instruction
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
— John 8:32, KJV
SECTION I: Immoral/Promiscuous Women
1.
I discovered that a seductive woman is a trap more bitter than death. Her passion is a snare, and her soft hands are chains. Those who are pleasing to God will escape her, but sinners will be caught in her snare.
— Eccles. 7:26, NLT
2.
For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But in the end she is as bitter as poison, as dangerous as a double-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
— Prov. 5:3-5, NLT
3.
The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town, calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says, “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
— Prov. 9:13-18, ESV
4.
for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well. Like a bandit she lies in wait and multiplies the unfaithful among men.
— Prov. 23:27-28, NIV
5.
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall there.
— Prov. 22:14, NKJV
6.
“Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her. “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now.”
— John 4:16-18, NLT
7.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
— Rev. 2:20-21, ESV
8.
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.
— Prov. 11:22, ESV
9.
For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.
— Matt. 23:27, ESV
10.
Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman, or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?
— Prov. 5:20, NLT
11.
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
— Prov. 30:20, ESV
12.
But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.
— 1 Tim. 5:6, NASB 1995
13.
Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman!
— Eccles. 7:28, NLT
14.
“And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”
— 2 Cor. 11:14, ESV
SECTION II: Gynocentric Social Order/Feminism
15.
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”
— Rev. 17:4-5, ESV
16.
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
— 2 Cor. 11:2-3, ESV
17.
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore. They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.
— Hos. 4:12-13, ESV
18.
You have been unfaithful to me, you people of Israel! You have been like a faithless wife who leaves her husband.
— Jer. 3:20, NLT
19.
She adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the Lord.
— Hos. 2:13, ESV
20.
O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them.
— Isa. 3:12, NASB 1995
21.
When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.”
— Hos. 1:2, NIV
22.
And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.
— Hos. 3:1, ESV
23.
She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
— Jer. 3:8, ESV
24.
You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.
— Ezek. 16:26 ESV
25.
In fact, you have been worse than a prostitute, so eager for sin that you have not even demanded payment. Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband. Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.
— Ezek. 16:31-33, NLT
26.
The Lord says, “Beautiful Zion is haughty: craning her elegant neck, flirting with her eyes, walking with dainty steps, tinkling her ankle bracelets. So the Lord will send scabs on her head; the Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.” On that day of judgment the Lord will strip away everything that makes her beautiful.
— Isa. 3:16-18, NLT
27.
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
— Rev. 17:1-2, ESV
28.
For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of her passionate immorality. The kings of the world have committed adultery with her. Because of her desires for extravagant luxury, the merchants of the world have grown rich.”
— Rev. 18:3, NLT
29.
And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
— Rev. 18:9, ESV
30.
“Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, queen city of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate. Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams. Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
— Isa. 47:1-3, NIV
31.
But now bring charges against Israel—your mother—for she is no longer my wife, and I am no longer her husband. Tell her to remove the prostitute’s makeup from her face and the clothing that exposes her breasts. Otherwise, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will leave her to die of thirst, as in a dry and barren wilderness. And I will not love her children, for they were conceived in prostitution. Their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said, ‘I’ll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and water, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil and drinks.’
— Hos. 2:2-5, NLT
32.
When she runs after her lovers, she won’t be able to catch them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I might as well return to my husband, for I was better off with him than I am now.’ She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has—the grain, the new wine, the olive oil; I even gave her silver and gold. But she gave all my gifts to Baal.
— Hos. 2:7-8, NLT
33.
You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband; you are utterly defiled. Your deeds won’t let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you do not know the Lord.
— Hos. 5:3-4, NLT
34.
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
— Rom. 12:21, ESV
SECTION III: Her Nature/Hypergamy
“Women are emotional, not logical; they operate on feelings not facts.”
— The God Pill
35.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
— 1 Tim. 2:13-14, NIV
36.
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’” “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”
— Gen. 3:1-5, NLT
37.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
— Gen. 3:6, ESV
38.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts.
— 2 Tim. 3:6, KJV
39.
Besides that, [young women] learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
— 1 Tim. 5:13, ESV
40.
The younger widows should not be on the list, because their physical desires will overpower their devotion to Christ and they will want to remarry.
— 1 Tim. 5:11, NLT
41.
For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
— 1 Cor. 4:7, NIV
42.
The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.
— Prov. 14:1, NASB 1995
43.
You will know them by their fruits.
— Matt. 7:16, NKJV
44.
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
— Gen. 19:31-32, 36, NIV
45.
When David returned home to bless his own family, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet him. She said in disgust, “How distinguished the king of Israel looked today, shamelessly exposing himself to the servant girls like any vulgar person might do!”
— 2 Sam. 6:20, NLT
46.
But as the Ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she was filled with contempt for him.
— 2 Sam. 6:16, NLT
“Hypergamy never seeks its own level; women always want the bigger, better deal.”
— The God Pill
47.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
— Gen. 6:4, KJV
48.
Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
— Ezek. 23:5-9, ESV
49.
“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
— Ezek. 23:11-12, ESV
50.
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust.
— Ezek. 23:14-17, ESV
51.
Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
— Ezek. 23:19-21, NIV
“If you’re her best option, you’re her only option.”
— The God Pill
52.
Kiss me and kiss me again, for your love is sweeter than wine. How pleasing is your fragrance; your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils. No wonder all the young women love you! Take me with you; come, let’s run! The king has brought me into his bedroom.
— Song 1:1-4, NLT
53.
I went down to the grove of walnut trees
— Song 6:11-12, NLT
and out to the valley to see the new spring growth,
to see whether the grapevines had budded
or the pomegranates were in bloom.
Before I realized it,
my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man.
54.
The king is lying on his couch, enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume. My lover is like a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts. He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms from the vineyards of En-gedi.
— Song 1:12-14, NLT
55.
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
— Song 2:3-4, ESV
so is my beloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat in his shadow,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
He brought me to the banqueting house,
and his banner over me was love.
56.
YOUNG WOMEN OF JERUSALEM
Why is your lover better than all others,
O woman of rare beauty?
What makes your lover so special
that we must promise this?YOUNG WOMAN
— Song 5:9-16, NLT
My lover is dark and dazzling,
better than ten thousand others!
His head is finest gold,
his wavy hair is black as a raven.
His eyes sparkle like doves
beside springs of water;
they are set like jewels
washed in milk.
His cheeks are like gardens of spices
giving off fragrance.
His lips are like lilies,
perfumed with myrrh.
His arms are like rounded bars of gold,
set with beryl.
His body is like bright ivory,
glowing with lapis lazuli.
His legs are like marble pillars
set in sockets of finest gold.
His posture is stately,
like the noble cedars of Lebanon.
His mouth is sweetness itself;
he is desirable in every way.
Such, O women of Jerusalem,
is my lover, my friend.
57.
Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover,
— Song 7:10-13, NLT
flowing gently over lips and teeth.
I am my lover’s,
and he claims me as his own.
Let us get up early and go to the vineyards
to see if the grapevines have budded,
if the blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.
There the mandrakes give off their fragrance,
and the finest fruits are at our door,
new delights as well as old,
which I have saved for you, my lover.
“Women make rules for betas; they break rules for alphas.”
— Red Pill Maxim
58.
I am a wall,
— Song 8:10-12, NIV
and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
like one bringing contentment.
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon;
he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
a thousand shekels of silver.
But my own vineyard is mine to give;
the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
59.
One night as I lay in bed, I yearned for my lover. I yearned for him, but he did not come. So I said to myself, “I will get up and roam the city, searching in all its streets and squares.
— Song 3:1-2, NLT
I will search for the one I love.” So I searched everywhere but did not find him.
60.
Where has your lover gone,
— Song 6:1, NLT
O woman of rare beauty?
SECTION IV: Marriage/Contentious Women
61.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
— Prov. 21:9, ESV
62.
A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day. Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands.
— Prov. 27:15-16, NLT
63.
A foolish child is a father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.
— Prov. 19:13, NIV
64.
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
— Prov. 19:14, ESV
65.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
— Prov. 12:4, ESV
66.
“You will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”
— Gen. 3:16, NLT
67.
“How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.”
— Mark 3:23–27, ESV
68.
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord… Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
— Eph. 5:22, 24, ESV
69.
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
— Eph. 5:23, NIV
70.
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
— 1 Pet. 3:7, ESV
71.
Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
— Eph. 5:33, ESV
72.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
— 1 Cor. 7:27-28, ESV
73.
So I say to those who aren’t married and to widows—it’s better to stay unmarried, just as I am. But if they can’t control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It’s better to marry than to burn with lust.
— 1 Cor. 7:8-9, NLT
74.
Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
— 1 Cor. 7:5, NLT
75.
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
— 1 Cor. 7:4, ESV
76.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
— Eph. 5:31, ESV
77.
But for those who are married, I have a command that comes not from me, but from the Lord. A wife must not leave her husband.
— 1 Cor. 7:10, NLT
78.
If she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.
— Mark 10:12, NIV
79.
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives.
— 1 Cor. 7:39, ESV
“Today 70-80% of divorces (or three out of four) are initiated by women.”
— Source: BBC (2022)
80.
(But if the husband or wife who isn’t a believer insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the believing husband or wife is no longer bound to the other, for God has called you to live in peace.)
— 1 Cor. 7:15, NLT
81.
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
— Heb. 13:4, NIV
82.
Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. She is a loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.
— Prov. 5:18-19, NLT
83.
Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days.
— Eccles. 9:9 NIV
84.
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
— Matt. 22:30, NIV
85.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
— Prov. 18:22, ESV
SECTION V: Know Your Role, Ladies
86.
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
— Gen. 2:18, NASB 1995
87.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
— 1 Cor. 11:8-9, KJV
88.
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
— Gen. 2:23, ESV
89.
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
— 1 Cor. 11:3, KJV
90.
For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.
— 1 Cor. 11:7, ESV
91.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
— 1 Tim. 2:12, ESV
92.
Women should be silent during the church meetings. It is not proper for them to speak. They should be submissive, just as the law says. If they have any questions, they should ask their husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in church meetings.
— 1 Cor. 14:34-35, NLT
93.
[Older women] are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
— Titus 2:3-5, ESV
94.
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
— 1 Tim. 5:14, ESV
95.
But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
— 1 Tim. 2:15, NIV
96.
For indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.
— 1 Cor. 11:19, NASB 1995
SECTION VI: Virtuous Women
97.
Who can find a virtuous woman?
— Prov. 31:10, KJV
for her price is far above rubies.
98.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
— Prov. 31:30, ESV
99.
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord.
— 1 Pet. 3:3-6, ESV
100.
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
— 1 Tim. 2:9-10, ESV
101.
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
— 1 Tim. 3:11, ESV
102.
She must be well respected by everyone because of the good she has done. Has she brought up her children well? Has she been kind to strangers and served other believers humbly? Has she helped those who are in trouble? Has she always been ready to do good?
— 1 Tim. 5:10, NLT
SECTION VII: Purity/Chastity
103.
Why spill the water of your springs in the streets, having sex with just anyone? You should reserve it for yourselves. Never share it with strangers.
— Prov. 5:16-17, NLT
104.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry.
— Lev. 21:13-14, ESV
105.
“Suppose a man marries a woman, but after sleeping with her, he turns against her and publicly accuses her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘When I married this woman, I discovered she was not a virgin.’ Then the woman’s father and mother must bring the proof of her virginity to the elders as they hold court at the town gate. Her father must say to them, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and now he has turned against her. He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.”
— Deut. 22:13-17, NLT
106.
If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house.
— Deut. 22:20-21, NIV
107.
We have a little sister
— Song 8:8-9, NLT
too young to have breasts.
What will we do for our sister
if someone asks to marry her?
If she is a virgin, like a wall,
we will protect her with a silver tower.
But if she is promiscuous, like a swinging door,
we will block her door with a cedar bar.
108.
The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had had relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.
— Gen. 24:16, NASB
SECTION VIII: Frame
109.
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”
— Gen. 3:12, ESV
110.
And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
— Gen. 3:17, NLT
111.
Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
— Prov. 25:26, ESV
“Women want the truth; they don’t want full disclosure. Relationships are built on trust, not transparency. Demonstrate, don’t explicate.”
— The God Pill
112.
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong and what it would take to tie you up securely.”
— Judg. 16:6, NLT
113.
Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. So he told her everything.
— Judg. 16:15-17, NIV
114.
Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man, and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.
But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household. No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.”
She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible. One day, however, no one else was around when he went in to do his work. She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away, but he left his cloak in her hand as he ran from the house.
When she saw that she was holding his cloak and he had fled, she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. “Look!” she said. “My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us! He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”
She kept the cloak with her until her husband came home. Then she told him her story. “That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our house tried to come in and fool around with me,” she said. “But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!”
— Gen. 39:6-18, NLT
115.
For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
— 1 Kings 11:4, ESV
116.
Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
— Hos. 3:3, NIV
117.
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
— Matt. 5:37, NKJV
SECTION IX: His Nature
118.
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
— Prov. 30:18-19, ESV
119.
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.
— 2 Sam. 11:2-4, NIV
120.
King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm. So his advisers told him, “Let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord. She will lie in your arms and keep you warm.”
Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.”
— Est. 2:2, ESV
121.
So they searched throughout the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag from Shunem and brought her to the king. The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him. But the king had no sexual relations with her.
— 1 Kings 1:1-4, NLT
122.
But at a birthday party for Herod, Herodias’s daughter performed a dance that greatly pleased him, so he promised with a vow to give her anything she wanted.
— Matt. 14:6–7, NLT
123.
No matter what dowry or gift you demand, I will gladly pay it—just give me the girl as my wife.
— Gen. 34:12, NLT
124.
He [Solomon] had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
— 1 Kings 11:3
125.
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided.
— 1 Cor. 7:32-34, ESV
126.
He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
— Matt. 19:8-11, ESV
The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
127.
I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.
— Hos. 2:4, NIV
128.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
— Prov. 14:12, ESV
129.
Oh, how beautiful you are!
— Song 7:6-8, NLT
How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
You are slender like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like grape clusters,
and the fragrance of your breath like apples.
SECTION X: Wisdom & Instruction
130.
Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman. She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God. Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to the grave. The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life.
— Prov. 2:16-19, NLT
131.
So now, my sons, listen to me. Never stray from what I am about to say: Stay away from her! Don’t go near the door of her house! If you do, you will lose your honor and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved. Strangers will consume your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor. In the end you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body. You will say, “How I hated discipline! If only I had not ignored all the warnings! Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers? Why didn’t I pay attention to my instructors? I have come to the brink of utter ruin, and now I must face public disgrace.”
— Prov. 5:7-14, NLT
132.
Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands. Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes. Tie them on your fingers as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family. Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.
While I was at the window of my house, looking through the curtain, I saw some naive young men, and one in particular who lacked common sense. He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman, strolling down the path by her house. It was at twilight, in the evening, as deep darkness fell. The woman approached him, seductively dressed and sly of heart. She was the brash, rebellious type, never content to stay at home. She is often in the streets and markets, soliciting at every corner. She threw her arms around him and kissed him, and with a brazen look she said, “I’ve just made my peace offerings and fulfilled my vows. You’re the one I was looking for! I came out to find you, and here you are! My bed is spread with beautiful blankets, with colored sheets of Egyptian linen. I’ve perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning. Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses, for my husband is not home. He’s away on a long trip. He has taken a wallet full of money with him and won’t return until later this month. “So she seduced him with her pretty speech and enticed him with her flattery. He followed her at once, like an ox going to the slaughter. He was like a stag caught in a trap, awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart. He was like a bird flying into a snare, little knowing it would cost him his life.
So listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to my words. Don’t let your hearts stray away toward her. Don’t wander down her wayward path. For she has been the ruin of many; many men have been her victims. Her house is the road to the grave. Her bedroom is the den of death.
— Prov. 7, NLT
133.
For their command is a lamp and their instruction a light; their corrective discipline is the way to life. It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman. Don’t lust for her beauty. Don’t let her coy glances seduce you. For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life. Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire? Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet? So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished.
— Prov. 6:23-29, NLT
134.
Do not waste your strength on women, on those who ruin kings.
— Prov. 31:3, NLT
135.
What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not.
— 1 Cor. 7:29, NIV
136.
A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
— Prov. 11:16, KJV
137.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
— Prov. 27:6 NASB 1995
138.
To the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.
—Ps. 18:26, NIV
139.
Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting—and conflict.
— Prov. 17:1, NLT
140.
If a man tried to buy love
— Song 8:7, NLT
with all his wealth,
his offer would be utterly scorned.
141.
Do not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
— Song 2:7; 3:5; 8:4, ESV
142.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
— 2 Cor. 6:14, ESV
143.
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
— 1 Cor. 15:33, NIV
144.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
— 1 Cor. 13:11, ESV
145.
A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.
— Prov. 22:3, NLT
146.
The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
— Prov. 14:15 ESV
147.
The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves.
— Prov. 14:8, NLT
148.
“Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the LORD your God.”
— 1 Kings 2:2-3, ESV
149.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
— Josh 1:9, ESV
150.
“Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.”
— 1 Cor. 13:16, NASB 1995
151.
For as [a man] thinks within himself, so he is.
— Prov. 23:7, NASB 1995
152.
A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
— Prov. 24:5-6, ESV
153.
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh.
— Gal 5:17, ESV
154.
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
— 1 Cor. 14:20, ESV
155.
“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.”
— Matt. 10:16, NASB 1995
156.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
— Hos. 4:6, ESV
“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.”
— Prov. 27:17, ESV