Proverbs 6:15-29

¹⁵Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly: in a moment shall he be broken, and without remedy.

¹⁶These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁸a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;

¹⁹a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

²⁰My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

²¹bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:

²²when thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

²⁴to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

²⁵Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

²⁶for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.

²⁷Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his garments not be burned?

²⁸Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

²⁹So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.