And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:

And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

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

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: