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

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Since God has showed you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are:

I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

They were as fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Destroyeth

For her house leads unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?

O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help.

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

General references

Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

Neither shall you commit adultery.

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,