Proverbs 6:26
For the price of a harlot is as much as a piece of bread, but the adulteress hunts for the precious life.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
25Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.
27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Cross References
Genesis 39:7And it came to pass, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lay with me.
1 Samuel 2:36And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a morse
Proverbs 7:23till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.
Proverbs 29:8Scoffers set a city in a flame, but wise men turn away wrath.
Ezekiel 13:18And say, Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the women who sew pillows upon all elbows, and make headdresses for the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Luke 15:30But when this thy son came, who has devoured thy living with harlots, thou killed for him the fatted calf.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →