Proverbs 6:26
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. 2 The adulteress hunts for your precious life. 1
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25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, 2 neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. 1
27Can a man scoop fire into his lap, 2 and his clothes not be burned? 1
Cross References
Genesis 39:7After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph [May he add]; and she said, “Lie with me.”
Proverbs 7:23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, 2 as a bird hurries to the snare, 2 and does not know that it will cost his life. 1
Proverbs 29:8Mockers stir up a city, 2 but wise men turn away anger. 1
Luke 15:30But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed 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 →