Proverbs 6:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

and I noticed among the naive that is, I discerned among the youths a senseless young man.

No one has more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld nothing from me, except you, and that's because you're his wife. So how can I commit such a horrible evil? How can I sin against God?"

Since God has revealed all of this to you," Pharaoh told Joseph, "there is no one so wise and discerning as you.

I committed myself to understand, to learn, to search for wisdom and explanations, and to understand both the evil that is foolishness and the stupidity that is delusion.

They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

Though claiming to be wise, they became fools

Destroyeth

For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.

The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.

All of a sudden he follows her like an ox fit for slaughter or like a fool fit for a trap

But whoever sins against me destroys himself; everyone who hates me loves death."

"Whoever is naive, turn in here!" And to anyone lacking sense, she says,

Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel?

"You have destroyed yourself, Israel, although I remain your help.

Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.

General references

"You are not to have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and thereby become ceremonially unclean with her."

""You are not to commit adultery.

"Let whoever is naive, turn in here." To anyone lacking sense, she says,