Parallel Verses
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 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.
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.
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.
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 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? 29 So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment. 30 People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 12:18-19
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 20:4-7
Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, "Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?
Genesis 26:10-11
Then Abimelech exclaimed, "What in the world have you done to us? One of the men might easily have had sexual relations with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
2 Samuel 11:3-4
So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel replied to Absalom, "Have sex with your father's concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you."
Proverbs 16:5
The Lord abhors every arrogant person; rest assured that they will not go unpunished.
Jeremiah 5:8-9
They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor's wife.
Ezekiel 22:11
One commits an abominable act with his neighbor's wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister -- his father's daughter -- within you.
Malachi 3:5
"I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me," says the Lord who rules over all.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."