Proverbs 5:20
Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
In Context
21For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1And king Solomon was a lover of women. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharao, Moabitish, Ammanitish women, Syrians and Idumeans, Chettites, and Amorites;
Proverbs 6:24to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
Proverbs 22:14a Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
Proverbs 23:33Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.
Malachi 2:16But if thou shouldest hate thy wife and put her away, saith the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover thy thoughts, saith the Lord Almighty: therefore take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake them not,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:16-23
Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange… Read the whole commentary →