A moment in scripture
Proverbs 7:21
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
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The surrounding passage
- Proverbs 7:19
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
- Proverbs 7:20
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
- Proverbs 7:22
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
- Proverbs 7:23
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.