Proverbs 6:27
May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
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- Job 31:9-9 : 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. 11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: 12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
- Hos 7:4-7 : 4 They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened. 5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride. 6 For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire. 7 They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
- Jas 3:5 : 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
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- Prov 6:28-303 verses89%
28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
- Prov 6:24-263 verses78%
24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
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6 If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.
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20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
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18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.
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27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
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21 Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
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18 As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
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21 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.
- Prov 6:32-343 verses71%
32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.
- Song 8:6-72 verses70%
6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
7 Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
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13 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
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14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
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16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
- Jas 3:5-62 verses70%
5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
- Prov 30:19-202 verses69%
19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.
20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
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12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
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5 Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
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14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.
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14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
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16 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
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4 See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?
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11 So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?
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20 Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.
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29 For our God is an all-burning fire.
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26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
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6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
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6 Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.
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13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;
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5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
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32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
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8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
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4 And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,
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3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
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11 See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.
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9 But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.
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10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
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24 Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:
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23 Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
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9 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.
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31 And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.