Cross references

Proverbs 11:22

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout

is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Proverbs 11:22 BSB

Proverbs 11:22 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Peter 3:3–4 (8 votes) and Proverbs 31:30 (7 votes). 2 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Genesis 24 to 2 Peter 2.

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  1. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

  2. Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

  3. because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft. “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. …

  4. Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

  5. The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.

  6. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

  7. Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

  8. But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking. You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred! …

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