Proverbs 6:27

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Proverbs 6:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

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

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

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 31:9

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Job 31:10

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Job 31:11

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

Job 31:12

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

Hosea 7:5

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

Hosea 7:6

For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Hosea 7:7

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

James 3:5

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.