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Proverbs 6:24-32

24 keeping you from the immoral woman,
from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes,

26 for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,
and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap
without his clothes being burned?

28 Can a man walk on hot coals
without his feet being scorched?

29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.

30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

32 But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment;
whoever does so destroys himself.

Cross References for Proverbs 6:24-32

Ecclesiastes 7:26 - I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands a... Click to read the verse Ecclesiastes 7:26 Click to read the verse Ecclesiastes 7:26

Proverbs 2:16 - It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words, Click to read the verse Proverbs 2:16 Click to read the verse Proverbs 2:16

Proverbs 7:5 - they will keep you from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words. Click to read the verse Proverbs 7:5 Click to read the verse Proverbs 7:5

Proverbs 5:3 - For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; Click to read the verse Proverbs 5:3 Click to read the verse Proverbs 5:3

Leviticus 15:20 - “‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be uncl... Click to read the verse Leviticus 15:20 Click to read the verse Leviticus 15:20

Proverbs 5:20 - Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man’s wife? Click to read the verse Proverbs 5:20 Click to read the verse Proverbs 5:20

Proverbs 7:21 - With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk. Click to read the verse Proverbs 7:21 Click to read the verse Proverbs 7:21

1 Kings 11:1 - Solomon’s Wives King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moab... Click to read the verse 1 Kings 11:1 Click to read the verse 1 Kings 11:1

Proverbs 26:28 - A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin. Click to read the verse Proverbs 26:28 Click to read the verse Proverbs 26:28