Proverbs 6:16-33

¹⁶There are six things that Yahweh hates, seven that are disgusting to him.

¹⁷The eyes of a proud person, a tongue that lies, hands that shed the blood of innocent people,

¹⁸a heart that invents wicked schemes, feet that quickly run to do evil,

¹⁹a witness who breathes out lies and one who sows discord among brothers.

²⁰My son, obey the command of your father and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

²¹Always bind them on your heart; tie them about your neck.

²²When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; and when you wake up, they will teach you.

²³For the commands are a lamp, and the teaching is a light; the corrections that come by instruction are the way of life.

²⁴It keeps you from the immoral woman, from the smooth words of an immoral woman.

²⁵Do not lust in your heart after her beauty and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes.

²⁶Sleeping with a prostitute can cost the price of a loaf of bread, but the wife of another may cost you your very life.

²⁷Can a man carry a fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

²⁸Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

²⁹So is the man who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; the one who sleeps with her will not go unpunished.

³⁰People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his need when he is hungry.

³¹Yet if he is caught, he will pay back seven times what he stole; he must give up everything of value in his house.

³²The one who commits adultery has no sense; the one who does it destroys himself.

³³Wounds and shame are what he deserves and his disgrace will not be wiped away.