Proverbs 6:20-35

20My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

21Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck.

22When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

23For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.

24They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.

25Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

26For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.

27Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

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

29So it is with the one who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

30People don’t despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.

31Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much; he must give up all the wealth in his house.

32The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

33He will get a beating and dishonor, and his disgrace will never be removed.

34For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

35He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish bribes.