Proverbs 6:23-35

²³For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

²⁴They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

²⁵Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

²⁶For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

²⁷May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?

²⁸Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?

²⁹So 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.

³⁰Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

³¹But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

³²He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

³³Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.

³⁴For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

³⁵He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.