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Proverbs 6:20-23

Warning Against Adultery

20My son, keep your father's commands
and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

21Bind them upon your heart forever;
fasten them around your neck.

22When you walk, they will guide you;
when you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.

23For these commands are a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and the corrections of discipline
are the way to life,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

33Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and his shame will never be wiped away;

34for jealousy arouses a husband's fury,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

35He will not accept any compensation;
he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.

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