Proverbs 6:32
He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, || He who does it is destroying his soul.
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In Context
31And being found he repays sevenfold, || He gives all the substance of his house.
33He finds a stroke and shame, || And his reproach is not wiped away,
Cross References
Genesis 39:9none is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld from me anything, except you, because you [are] his wife; and how will I do this great evil? Then I have sinned against God.”
Exodus 20:14You do not commit adultery.
Proverbs 2:18For her house has inclined to death, || And her paths to Rephaim.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Proverbs 7:22He is going after her straight away, he comes as an ox to the slaughter, || And as a chain to the discipline of a fool,
Proverbs 9:4“Who [is] simple? Let him turn aside here.” Whoever lacks heart: she has said to 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 →