Proverbs 6:23–35

23 For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,af

and corrective discipline is the way to life.ag

24 They will protect you from an evil woman,A

from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.ah

25 Don’t lust in your heart for her beautya

or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.b

26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,B

but the wife of another manC goes after a precious life.c

27 Can a man embrace fire

and his clothes not be burned?

28 Can a man walk on burning coals

without scorching his feet?

29 So it is with the one who sleeps with

another man’s wife;

no one who touches her will go unpunished.d

30 People don’t despise the thief if he steals

to satisfy himself when he is hungry.e

31 Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much;f

he must give up all the wealth in his house.

32 The one who commits adulteryD lacks sense;

whoever does so destroys himself.g

33 He will get a beatingE and dishonor,

and his disgrace will never be removed.

34 For jealousy enrages a husband,h

and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

35 He will not be appeased by anything

or be persuaded by lavish bribes.