Proverbs 6:26
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
25Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
27Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
Cross References
Genesis 39:7And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, 'Lie with me;'
1 Samuel 2:36and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'
Proverbs 7:23Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.
Proverbs 29:8Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.
Ezekiel 13:18And thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sowing pillows for all joints of the arm, And to those making the kerchiefs For the head of every stature — to hunt souls, The souls do ye hunt of My people? And the souls ye have do ye keep alive?
Luke 15:30but when thy son — this one who did devour thy living with harlots — came, thou didst kill to 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 →