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Proverbs 6:20-35

20 My son, keep your father's command, and don't reject your mother's teaching.

20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

21 Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck.

21 Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.

22 When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

23 For a commandment is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective instructions are the way to life.

23 For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,

24 They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a stranger.

24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

25 Don't lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

26 For a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after [your] very life.

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?

28 Can a man walk on coals without scorching his feet?

28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?

29 So it is with the one who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

30 People don't despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.

30 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

31 Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much; he must give up all the wealth in his house.

31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

32 The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

33 He will get a beating and dishonor, and his disgrace will never be removed.

33 Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away.

34 For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

35 He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish gifts.

35 He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.