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Proverbs 6:20-35

20 My son, keep your father's command; don't abandon your mother's instruction.

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

21 Bind them on your heart for all time; fasten them around your neck.

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

22 When you walk around, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will protect you; when you awake, they will occupy your attention.

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 The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light; corrective teaching is the path of life.

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

24 They guard you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.

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

25 Don't desire her beauty in secret; don't let her take you in 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 costs a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for a man's 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 scoop fire into his lap and his clothes not get burned?

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

28 If a man walks on hot coals, don't his feet get burned?

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

29 So is the man who approaches his neighbor's wife; anyone who touches her will be punished.

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

30 People don't despise a thief if he steals to fill his starving stomach.

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

31 But if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give all the riches of his house.

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

32 He who commits adultery is senseless. Doing so, he destroys himself.

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

33 He is wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be wiped away.

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

34 Jealousy makes a man rage; he'll show no mercy on his day of revenge.

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

35 He won't accept compensation; he'll refuse even a large bribe.

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