Verse 20

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

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well. 28 Yes, 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 imagine confusing things.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; 17 Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God: 18 For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life: