Proverbs 6:20-33

²⁰My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.

²¹Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.

²²It shall leade thee, when thou walkest: it shall watch for thee, when thou sleepest, and when thou wakest, it shall talke with thee.

²³For the commandement is a lanterne, and instruction a light: and corrections for instruction are the way of life,

²⁴To keepe thee from the wicked woman, and from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

²⁵Desire not her beautie in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.

²⁶For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

²⁷Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?

²⁸Or can a man go vpon coales, and his feete not be burnt?

²⁹So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife, shall not be innocent, whosoeuer toucheth her.

³⁰Men do not despise a thiefe, when he stealeth, to satisfie his soule, because he is hungrie.

³¹But if he be founde, he shall restore seuen folde, or he shall giue all the substance of his house.

³²But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.

³³He shall finde a wounde and dishonour, and his reproch shall neuer be put away.