Proverbs 6:26
Sleeping with a prostitute can cost the price of a loaf of bread, 1 but the wife of another may cost you your very life. 1
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In Context
25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty 1 and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes. 1
27Can a man carry a fire against his chest 1 without burning his clothes? 1
Cross References
Genesis 39:7It came about after this that his master's wife lusted for Joseph. She said, “Sleep with me.”
1 Samuel 2:36Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him, asking for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please assign me to one of the priests' positions so I can eat a piece of bread.”'”
Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces through its liver. 1 He was like a bird rushing into a snare. 1 He did not know that it would cost his life. 1
Proverbs 29:8Mockers set a city on fire, 1 but those who are wise turn away wrath. 1
Ezekiel 13:18Say, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Woe to the women who sew magic charms onto every part of their hand and make veils for their heads of every size, used to hunt down people. Will you hunt down my people but save your own lives?
Luke 15:30but when your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed for him the fattened 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 →