Proverbs 6:32

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Summary

Proverbs 6:32

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Lacketh

Destroyeth

General references

Leviticus 18:20

Deuteronomy 5:18

Proverbs 9:4

Bible References

Lacketh

I saw among the inexperienced,
I noticed among the youths,
a young man lacking sense.

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as intelligent and wise as you are.

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

They are well-fed, eager stallions,
each neighing after someone else’s wife.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Destroyeth

for her house sinks down to death
and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.

He follows her impulsively
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding toward a trap

but the one who misses me harms himself;
all who hate me love death.”

“Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!”
To the one who lacks sense, she says,

Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

I will destroy you, Israel;
you have no help but Me.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

General references

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.

Do not commit adultery.

“Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!”
To the one who lacks sense, she says,