Verse 20

But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

Referenced Verses

• Prov 6:24 : 24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
• Prov 7:5 : 5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
• Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
• Prov 23:27-28 : 27 for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well. 28 Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
• Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
• 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women(besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
• Prov 2:16-19 : 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words; 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God. 18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits. 19 None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.