Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

New American Standard Bible

The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense;
He who would destroy himself does it.

King James Version

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Holman Bible

The one who commits adultery lacks sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.

International Standard Version

Whoever commits adultery with a woman is out of his mind; by doing so he corrupts his own soul.

A Conservative Version

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

American Standard Version

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

Amplified


But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks common sense and sound judgment and an understanding [of moral principles];
He who would destroy his soul does it.

Bible in Basic English

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

Julia Smith Translation

He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do it.

King James 2000

But whosoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks {sense}, he destroys himself who does it.

Modern King James verseion

Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman, he is a fool: and destroyeth his own soul.

NET Bible

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.

New Heart English Bible

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

The Emphasized Bible

He that committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh sense, A destroyer of his own life, is he that doeth it;

Webster

But whoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

World English Bible

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Youngs Literal Translation

He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
with a woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 18

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 146

Context Readings

Warning Against Relations With A Married Woman

31 and if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. 32 Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 33 A wound and contempt shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Cross References

Proverbs 7:7

and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,

Proverbs 7:22-23

He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool;

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

Genesis 39:9-10

There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Genesis 41:39

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.

Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Proverbs 2:18-19

for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;

Proverbs 5:22-23

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

Proverbs 8:36

but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 9:4

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,

Proverbs 9:16-18

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. And to him that is void of understanding she saith,

Ecclesiastes 7:25-26

I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

Jeremiah 5:8

As well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish and heartless people, who have eyes and see not; who have ears, and hear not.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?

Hosea 4:11-12

Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.

Hosea 13:9

It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.

Romans 1:22-24

professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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