Quotes About Temptation

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?

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

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

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

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

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

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.”

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

A foolís mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.