Proverbs 5:20
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Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.