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 I saw among the simple ones, among the youths, a young man with no understanding,

There is none greater in this house than I. Neither has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has shown you all this, no one is as discreet and wise as you.

I set 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 like lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

Professing to be wise, they became fools

Destroyeth

For her house bows down to death, and her paths to the dead.

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

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

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.

The simple one, let him turn in here. And to one lacking heart, she says to him,

Cast away from you all your sins by which you have sinned; 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.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

General references

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

And you shall not commit adultery.

The simple one, let him turn in here. To one lacking heart, she says to him,