Proverbs 6:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:9-9 : 9 If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, 10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. 11 For it `is' a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; 12 For a fire it `is', to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
  • Hos 7:4-7 : 4 All of them `are' adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening. 5 A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves `with' the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners. 6 For they have drawn near, As an oven `is' their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire. 7 All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them.
  • Jas 3:5 : 5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

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  • Prov 6:28-30
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    89%

    28Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

    29So `is' he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

    30They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    78%

    24To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

    26For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

  • Exod 22:6
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    6`When fire goeth forth, and hath found thorns, and a stack, or the standing corn, or the field, hath been consumed, he who causeth the burning doth certainly repay.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!

  • Prov 16:27
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    27A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.

  • Prov 26:21
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    21Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18As `one' pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

  • Job 41:21
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    21His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.

  • Prov 6:32-34
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    32He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

    33A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,

    34For jealousy `is' the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

  • Song 8:6-7
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    70%

    6Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings `are' burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

    7Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down -- they tread upon it.

  • Prov 27:13
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    13Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

  • Lev 20:14
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    14`And a man who taketh the woman and her mother -- it `is' wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.

  • Prov 27:16
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    16Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.

  • Jas 3:5-6
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    5so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

    6and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

  • Prov 30:19-20
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    69%

    19The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.

    20So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

  • Job 31:12
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    12For a fire it `is', to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14Lo, they have been as stubble! Fire hath burned them, They deliver not themselves from the power of the flame, There is not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

  • Prov 20:16
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    16Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

  • Ezek 15:4
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    4Lo, to the fire it hath been given for fuel, Its two ends hath the fire eaten, And its midst hath been scorched! Is it profitable for work?

  • Eccl 4:11
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    11Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

  • Job 22:20
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    20`Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'

  • Heb 12:29
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    29for also our God `is' a consuming fire.

  • Eccl 7:26
    68%

    26And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.

  • Amos 5:6
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    6Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire `against' the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.

  • Num 5:13
    68%

    13and a man hath lain with her `with' the seed of copulation, and it hath been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she hath been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she hath not been caught,

  • Prov 7:5
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    5To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

  • Ezek 16:32
    68%

    32The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

  • Prov 5:8
    68%

    8Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

  • Ezek 5:4
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    4and of them thou dost take again, and hast cast them unto the midst of the fire, and hast burned them in the fire -- out of it cometh forth a fire unto all the house of Israel.

  • Prov 5:3
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth,

  • Isa 50:11
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    11Lo, all ye kindling a fire, girding on sparks, Walk ye in the light of your fire, And in the sparks ye have caused to burn, From my hand hath this been to you, In grief ye lie down!

  • 1 Cor 7:9
    68%

    9and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

  • Prov 7:10
    67%

    10And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

  • Prov 22:24
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    24Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

  • Prov 26:23
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    23Silver of dross spread over potsherd, `Are' burning lips and an evil heart.

  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils. And fire from His mouth devoureth, Brands have been kindled by it.

  • Isa 1:31
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    31And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!