Proverbs 6:29
So [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, || None who touches her is innocent.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
In Context
28Does a man walk on the hot coals, || And are his feet not scorched?
30They do not despise the thief, || When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,
Cross References
Genesis 20:2and Abraham says concerning his wife Sarah, “She is my sister”; and Abimelech king of Gerar sends and takes Sarah.
Genesis 20:6And God says to him in the dream, “Indeed, I have known that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I withhold you, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not permitted you to come against her;
Leviticus 18:20And you do not give your seed [from] intercourse to the wife of your fellow, to become unclean with her.
2 Samuel 11:3and David sends and inquires about the woman, and [someone] says, “Is this not Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the word of YHWH, to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife for a wife for yourself, and you have slain him by the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Proverbs 16:5Every proud one of heart [is] an abomination to YHWH, || Hand to hand—he is not acquitted.
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 →