Proverbs 6:26
By an harlot [a man is brought] to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
In Context
25Lust not after her beautie in thyne heart, lest thou be taken with her fayre lokes.
27May a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be brent?
Cross References
Genesis 39:7And after this, his maisters wyfe cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide: [come] lye with me.
Proverbs 7:23So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.
Proverbs 29:8Scornefull men bryng a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.
Luke 15:30But assoone as this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy goodes with harlottes, thou hast for his pleasure kylled that fat calfe.
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 →