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
25Do not 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 39:7It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
1 Samuel 2:36It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall 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, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs 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 →