Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
New American Standard Bible
Whoever touches her
King James Version
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Holman Bible
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.
International Standard Version
So also is it with someone who has sex with his neighbor's wife; anyone touching her will not remain unpunished.
A Conservative Version
So [is] he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.
American Standard Version
So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
Amplified
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
Whoever touches her will not be found innocent or go unpunished.
Darby Translation
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Julia Smith Translation
So he going in to his neighbor's wife; all touching upon her shall not be innocent
King James 2000
So is he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
Modern King James verseion
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so, whosoever goeth in to his neighbour's wife, and toucheth her, can not be unguilty.
NET Bible
So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
New Heart English Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
The Emphasized Bible
So, he that goeth in unto his neighbour's wife, no man shall be guiltless who toucheth her!
Webster
So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
World English Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
Youngs Literal Translation
So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against Relations With A Married Woman
28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment. 30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 12:18-19
Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?
Genesis 20:4-7
Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?
Genesis 26:10-11
Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.
Leviticus 20:10
And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
2 Samuel 11:3-4
And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.
Jeremiah 5:8-9
They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
Ezekiel 22:11
And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.