²¹ With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

² Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

¹⁵ When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.

²⁹ They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

²³ "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

⁵ That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁸ It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

²³ But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.

¹⁵ She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in which your great strength lies.

¹⁶ It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death.

¹⁷ He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

²⁴ To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.