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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 6:23-35
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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 6:23
- Variant Count: 4 (19%)
For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,
keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
Proverbs 6:24
- Variant Count: 5 (33%)
keeping you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
Proverbs 6:25
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Proverbs 6:26
- Variant Count: 9 (42%)
For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man's wife preys on your very life.
Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
Proverbs 6:27
- Variant Count: 1 (7%)
Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
Proverbs 6:28
- Variant Count: 1 (7%)
Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Proverbs 6:29
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
Proverbs 6:30
- Variant Count: 2 (11%)
People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
Proverbs 6:31
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Proverbs 6:32
- Variant Count: 4 (26%)
But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
Proverbs 6:33
- Variant Count: 1 (6%)
Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away.
for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
Proverbs 6:34
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
Proverbs 6:35
- Variant Count: 2 (12%)
He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.
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