Proverbs 6:29
27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30 Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
31 Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
- KJV
- So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- WEB
- So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
- ASV
- So he that goeth in to his neighbor`s wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
- DARBY
- So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- BLB
- So [is] the one coming in to the wife of his neighbor; anyone who touches her shall not be innocent.
- ÅB
- Slik blir det med den som går inn til sin nestes hustru; ingen blir ustraffet som rører henne.
- OTB
- Slik er den som går inn til sin nabos kone; den som rører henne vil ikke gå ustraffet.
- B1930
- Slik blir det med den som går inn til sin næstes hustru; ingen blir ustraffet som rører henne.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
Read in contextLeviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:9–10
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:11
One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
Read in contextMalachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Read in context2 Samuel 11:3–4
So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
Read in contextGenesis 26:10–11
“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Read in contextGenesis 12:18–19
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
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