Proverbs 6:26
You can buy a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery with another man's wife can cost you your life.
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In Context
25Don't let your mind lust after her beauty, or let her hypnotize you with her fluttering eyelashes.
27Can you put fire in your lap and not burn your clothes?
Cross References
Genesis 39:7so some time later he caught the eye of his master's wife. She propositioned him, saying, “Come here! Sleep with me!”
1 Samuel 2:36Every one of your descendants who is left will come and bow down to him, asking for money and food, saying, ‘Please give me work as a priest so that I can have food to eat.’”
Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces its liver, like a bird flying into a trap, he's unaware he will pay with his life.
Proverbs 29:8Cynical people can inflame a whole city, but the wise calm angry people down.
Ezekiel 13:18and tell them that this is what the Lord God says: Disaster is coming to the women who sew bracelets of magic charms for their wrists and make veils for all kinds of people to wear as ways to trap and exploit them. Do you think you can trap the lives of my people yet still keep your own?
Luke 15:30Now this son of yours comes back, having spent your money on prostitutes, and you kill the fattened calf for 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 →