Proverbs 6:29

World English Bible (2000)

So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 12:18-19 : 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
  • Gen 20:4-7 : 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? 5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this." 6 God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her. 7 Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
  • Gen 26:10-11 : 10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!" 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
  • 2 Sam 11:3-4 : 3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
  • 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
  • 2 Sam 16:21 : 21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."
  • Prov 16:5 : 5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
  • Jer 5:8-9 : 8 They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife. 9 Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • 1 Cor 7:1 : 1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    18 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

    19 "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

    20 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

  • Prov 6:30-33
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    77%

    30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

    31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

    32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

    33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

  • Prov 6:24-28
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    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

    27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

    28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

  • Num 5:12-14
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    12 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

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    14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:

  • Ezek 18:15
    76%

    15 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Ezek 18:11
    75%

    11 and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Num 5:29
    74%

    29 "'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

    9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

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    16 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

  • Lev 20:10
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    10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 22:30
    73%

    30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

  • Deut 5:21
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    21 "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'

    28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • Num 5:20
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    20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Deut 5:18-19
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    18 "Neither shall you commit adultery.

    19 "Neither shall you steal.

  • Ezek 18:6
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    20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

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    14 "You shall not commit adultery.

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    9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

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    20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Deut 28:30
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    30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

  • Exod 22:16
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  • Exod 20:17
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    2 "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

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  • Lev 5:3
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  • Ezek 22:11
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    11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.