Proverbs 6:26
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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In Context
25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
27Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?
Cross References
Genesis 39:7After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
1 Samuel 2:36It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
Proverbs 7:23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
Proverbs 29:8Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
Ezekiel 13:18and say, “The Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all elbows and make veils for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and save souls alive for yourselves?
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 →