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 simple ones, I discerned among the youth, a young man without understanding.

No one in this house is greater than I. He has kept nothing back from me except you. You are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?

The king said to Joseph: God has shown you all this. Therefore it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else.

I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom. I looked for the explanation, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

They were like well-fed stallions wild with desire, each lusting for his neighbor's wife.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

Destroyeth

If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead.

His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.

He immediately goes after her. He is like a bull that goes to the slaughter. Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

But he who sins against me wrongs himself. All who hate me love death.

Let the inexperienced (naive) one come in here, and to the person who lacks understanding she says:

Give up all the evil you have been doing. Get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

You are destroying yourself, Israel. You are against me, your helper.

Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

General references

Do not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.

Do not commit adultery.

Who is simple? Let him turn in here! He who lacks understanding, she says to him,