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Proverbs 6:26

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26For aon account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread,

And 1an adulteress bhunts for the precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit a man’s wife

Cross references

  1. aProv 5:9, 10; 29:3
  2. bProv 7:23; Ezek 13:18

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,

but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,

but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.

NLTNew Living Translation

For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,

but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread,

but the woman belonging to a man hunts precious life.

KJV 1900King James Version

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread:

And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.