Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 31:9-9 : 9 ¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges. 12 For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
- Hos 7:4-7 : 4 They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. 5 In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.
- Jas 3:5 : 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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- Prov 6:28-303 verses89%
28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
30 [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
- Prov 6:24-263 verses78%
24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed [therewith]; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.
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27 ¶ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire.
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21 [As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife.
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18 ¶ As a mad [man] who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
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21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
- Prov 6:32-343 verses71%
32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- Song 8:6-72 verses70%
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath a] most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if [a] man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
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13 ¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it [is] wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
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16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
- Jas 3:5-62 verses70%
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
- Prov 30:19-202 verses69%
19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
20 Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
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12 For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
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14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.
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14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
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16 ¶ Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for [any] work?
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11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?
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20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
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29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
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26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
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6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Bethel.
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13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and [there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the manner];
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5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
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32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!
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8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
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3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
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11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
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9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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24 ¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
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23 ¶ Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.
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9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
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31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].