Proverbs 6:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:7 : 7 I saw among the young men one without sense,
  • Prov 7:22-23 : 22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; 23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
  • Gen 39:9-9 : 9 So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God? 10 And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.
  • Gen 41:39 : 39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:
  • Exod 20:14 : 14 Do not be false to the married relation.
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
  • Prov 5:22-23 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
  • Prov 8:36 : 36 But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
  • Prov 9:4 : 4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:
  • Prov 9:16-18 : 16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says: 17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. 18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
  • Eccl 7:25-26 : 25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses. 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.
  • Jer 5:8 : 8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?
  • Hos 4:11-12 : 11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom. 12 My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
  • Hos 13:9 : 9 I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?
  • Rom 1:22-24 : 22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, 23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

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    29So 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.

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    27You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:

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  • Lev 20:10
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  • Exod 20:14
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    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

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    13By 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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    18Do not be false to the married relation.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

  • Prov 8:36
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    36But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • Mark 10:11
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    11And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

  • Ezek 18:11
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  • Jas 2:11
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    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

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    22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

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    3A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

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    4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

  • Prov 17:19
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    19The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • Prov 19:2
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    2Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

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    7I saw among the young men one without sense,

  • Lev 6:3
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    2A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

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    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.