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 young men one without sense,

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:

I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

Destroyeth

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

General references

And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

Do not be false to the married relation.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says: