Proverbs 6:27-32

27 Can you carry fire against your chest without burning your clothes?
28 Can you walk on hot coals without burning your feet?
29 It is just as dangerous to sleep with another man's wife. Whoever does it will suffer.
30 People don't despise a thief if he steals food when he is hungry;
31 yet if he is caught, he must pay back seven times more - he must give up everything he has.
32 But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. People don't despise . . . hungry; [or] Don't people despise . . . hungry?
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.