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Proverbs 6:26
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
Proverbs 6:26 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 6:26 in other translations
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.
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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In context
23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
29 So 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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