Proverbs 6:26
For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, || And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, || And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
27Does a man take fire into his bosom, || And are his garments not burned?
Cross References
Genesis 39:7And it comes to pass after these things, that his lord’s wife lifts up her eyes to Joseph and says, “Lie with me”;
1 Samuel 2:36and it has been, everyone who is left in your house comes to bow himself to him for a wage of silver and a cake of bread, and has said, Please admit me to one of the priest’s offices, to eat a morsel of bread.”
Proverbs 7:23Until an arrow splits his liver, || As a bird has hurried to a snare, || And has not known that it [is] for its life.
Proverbs 29:8Men of scorning ensnare a city, || And the wise turn back anger.
Ezekiel 13:18And you have said, Thus said Lord YHWH: Woe to those sowing [magic] bands for all joints of the arm, || And to those making the veils || For the head of every stature—to hunt souls, || Do you hunt the souls of My people? And do your souls that live remain alive?
Luke 15:30but when your son—this one who devoured your living with prostitutes—came, you killed to 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 →