Proverbs 6:26
For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Cross References
Genesis 39:7And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
1 Samuel 2:36And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
Proverbs 7:23Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs 29:8Scornful men set a city in a flame: but wise men turn away wrath.
Ezekiel 13:18and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Luke 15:30but when this thy son came, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted 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 →