Proverbs 6:25-27

New Living Translation

²⁵Don’t lust for her beauty.
    Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.
²⁶For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,^[a]
    but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.
²⁷Can a man scoop a flame into his lap
    and not have his clothes catch on fire?

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Footnotes

6:26 Hebrew to a loaf of bread.

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