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Proverbs 5:20
Proverbs 5:20 is verse 20 of Proverbs chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Or a foreign woman or another man’s wife
King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
World English Bible
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
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Proverbs 5:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 2:18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Proverbs 2:19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Proverbs 6:24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
Proverbs 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Proverbs 23:28Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
1 Kings 11:1King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.