Proverbs 6:32
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
31Yet if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house.
33Wounds and dishonor he shall get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Cross References
Genesis 39:9He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Exodus 20:14Thou shall not commit adultery.
Proverbs 2:18(for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 7:22He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Proverbs 9:4He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
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 →