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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 6:23-35

New International Version (1984 Edition)
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Proverbs 6:23
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For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,
Proverbs 6:24
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keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
Proverbs 6:25
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Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
Proverbs 6:26
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for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Proverbs 6:27
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Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
Proverbs 6:28
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Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
Proverbs 6:29
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So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Proverbs 6:30
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Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
Proverbs 6:31
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Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
Proverbs 6:32
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But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Proverbs 6:33
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Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
Proverbs 6:34
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for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
Proverbs 6:35
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He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
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